Table of Contents

Contents Foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev Preface 1. Ethnography and Theory 2. Indigenization, Deportation, and Return 3. Contradictory Modernization 4. Chechen Images 5. The Road to War 6. Dzhokhar: Hero and Devil 7. The Sons of War 8. The Culture of Hostage-Taking 9. Violence in Secessionist Warfare 10. The Impact on Family Life 11. Religion and the Chechen Conflict 12. The Myth and Reality of the "Great Victory" 13. An Ideology of Extremes 14. Chechnya as a Stage and a Role Conclusion Notes Main Characters Research Partners, Informants, and Cross-Reviewers Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Valery Tishkov is Professor of History and Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published many books in Russian and is also the author of Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Conflict in and after the Soviet Union: The Mind Aflame (1997).