Subjugate or Exterminate!
Subtitle: A Memoir of Russia's Wars in Chechnya
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books; Academica Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781680530759
Subjects: Chechnia (russia), history, civil war, 1994-; Russia (federation), biography; Russia (federation), history
Description: "Subjugate or Exterminate!is an authoritative first-hand account of the Russo-Chechen conflict by a Chechen leader who played a central role in all the main events. Akhmed Zakayev rose rapidly from an actor of Shakespearean roles to Commander of the Western Group for the Defense of Ichkeria, and later served as Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya and, in exile, as Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). It describes how the Kremlin set about discrediting and destroying a democratic government by interacting with criminal gangs and fomenting Islamist forces to split the Chechen independence movement in a perverse reversal of the "War on Terror." Akhmed Zakayev's memoir begins with a historical survey of the fraught relations between the Chechens and the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, up to the collapse of the USSR. The advent of Gorbachev's Perestroikaraised hopes that independence might enable Chechnya to end centuries of oppression and exploitation"--