Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad

by James Hughes

Book Overview

The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of secular nationalist resistance in a nominally Islamic society into a struggle that is its antithesis, jihad. Hughes locates Chechen nationalism within the wider movement for national self-determination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220307
• ISBN13: 9780812220308
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"