Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
History
Date of Award
12-2014
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Henry Antkiewicz
Committee Members
Stephen Fritz, William Douglas Burgess
Abstract
In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Chechens fought against the Russians for independence. The focus in the literature available has been on the wars and the atrocities caused by the wars. The literature then hypothesizes that the insurgency of today is just a continuation of the past. They do not focus on a major event in Chechen history: the Soviet liquidation of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1944. It is this author’s assertion that the liquidation of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR forever changed the mindset of the people because it fractured a society that was once unified. This project will compare the Chechen insurgency from the beginnings until the deportation and after the deportation. This will allow me to show how the deportation changed the Chechen mindset and disprove the assertion that these two Chechen wars were just a continuation of the past.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Baxter, Christina E., "The Wolf Attacks: A History of the Russo-Chechen Conflict" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2460. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2460
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.
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