Title Chechnya : life in a war-torn society / Valery Tishkov ; with a foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
	©2004

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	DK511.C37 T572 2004	Available	---

Description	xviii, 284 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Series	California series in public anthropology ; 6
	California series in public anthropology ; 6.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.
Contents	Ethnography and theory -- Indigenization, deportation, and return -- Contradictory modernization -- Chechen images -- Road to war -- Dzhokhar: hero and devil -- Sons of war -- Culture of hostage-taking -- Violence in secessionist warfare -- Impact on family life -- Religion and the Chechen conflict -- Myth and reality of the "great victory" -- An ideology of extremes -- Chechnya as a stage and a role.
Subject	Chechni͡a (Russia) -- History -- Civil War, 1994- -- Social aspects.
	Chechni͡a (Russia) -- History -- Civil War, 1994- -- Personal narratives, Chechen.
Genre/Form	Personal narratives.
	Personal narratives.
ISBN	0520238877 cloth alkaline paper
	0520238885 paperback alkaline paper