Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict

by Andrew Meier

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The barbaric, terrorist siege in the summer of 2004 that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent children in Beslan did not begin either there or in the take-over of a Moscow theatre in 2002. As Andrew Meier explains in this utterly compelling account, the most recent Chechen war actually broke out on New Year's Eve in 1994 when Boris Yeltsin sent hundreds of tanks to the center of the city of Grozny in an effort to quell popular demands for independence from Russia. Six years later, Meier, braving great personal danger, traveled to the scene of one...Read more
  • ISBN10 0393327329
  • ISBN13 9780393327328
  • Publish Date 12 November 2004
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 10 April 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 140
  • Language English