The Caucasian Chalk Circle: Chechen-Russian History, Part I
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
The breakaway Russian province of Chechnya has made headlines in the United States since the early 1990s, but few Americans know that the roots of the Chechen-Russian conflict stretch back at least to the 18th century, or that Stalin deported the entire population of Chechnya to Central Asia in 1944. The Chechens returned from their exile after Stalin's death, and began seriously pursuing independence when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Also on the show, Bob Kerrey gets controversial, and when TiVo goes crazy.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle: Chechen-Russian History, Part I
Miriam Lanskoy, PhD candidate at Boston University and researcher at the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy, on the beginnings of the conflict between Russia and Chechnya.
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