1991 en Tchétchénie Regards sur un basculement, vingt ans après

Aude Merlin

Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, 2011, vol. 42, issue 03, 189-214

Abstract: In Chechnya, the year 1991 provides a stimulating test period for analyzing the convulsions that wracked the USSR, since we observe there both the reversals caused by the accelerated anti-Soviet mobilization, which culminated in the putsch in Moscow, and the dimension of national liberation expressed by Chechens demanding independence. Moscow’s turnabout – after Yeltsin’s government had lent support to the “Chechen revolution” – reflects the difficulties Russia had managing postimperial affairs. Firsthand accounts collected in 2011 from Chechen leaders, some of them living outside their homeland, shed new light on these events as, looking back, we raise questions, two decades later, about what was the “horizon of the conceivable” in 1991.

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.necplus.eu/abstract_S0338059911003093 link to article abstract page (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nec:retceo:v:42:y:2011:i:03:p:189-214_00

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest from Editions NecPlus 16, Rue Claude Tillier 75012 Paris, FRANCE.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-Louis Soubret ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).