The chechen struggle: Independence won and lost

The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-271

  Akhmadov, Ilyas ^a   Lanskoy, Miriam ^b  

^a National Endowment for Democracy on programs in Eurasia ^*

^b National Endowment for Democracy on programs in Eurasia   (Russian Federation)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230117518     Document Type: Book

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