Overview

The five chapters of this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during the five months from May through September 1999. They sparked the Russian invasion of Chechnya on 1 October and vaulted a previously unknown former KGB agent into the post of Russian prime minister and, ultimately, president. The five chapters are devoted to: ⁊ The intense political struggle taking place in Russia between May and August of 1999, culminating in an incursion by armed Islamic separatists into the Republic of Dagestan.⁊ Two Moscow terrorist bombings of 9 and 13 September 1999, claiming the lives of 224 Muscovites and preparing the psychological and political ground for a full-blown invasion of Chechnya.⁊ The so-called Ryazan Incident of 22 September 1999, when eyewitnesses observed officers of the FSB special forces placing a live bomb in the basement of an apartment building in the town of Rzayan.⁊ The detonation of a powerful truck bomb outside of an apartment house in Buinaksk, Dagestan, on 4 September 1999, which took the lives of fifty-eight innocent victims.⁊ The explosion on 16 September 1999 of a truck bomb in the city of Volgdonsk in southern Russia, which killed eighteen persons and seriously wounded eighty-nine

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Author:   John B. Dunlop ,  Amy Knight
Publisher:   ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Imprint:   ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Volume:   110
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.781kg
ISBN:  

9783838206080

ISBN 10:   3838206088
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   08 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Foreword by Amy Knight Preface I. ""Storm in Moscow"": A Plan of the Yeltsin ""Family"" to Destabilize Russia II. The Hunt for ""False-Laipanov"": The September 1999 Moscow Bombings III. The ""Ryazan Incident"" IV. The Trials of the Buinaksk Bombers: Judicial Anarchy? V. The Volgodonsk Apartment House Bombing Postscript to 2014 Edition Index"

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Dunlop [...] draws on investigative reporting by Russian journalists, accounts of Russian officials in law enforcement agencies, eyewitness testimony, and the analyses of Western journalists and academics. The evidence he provides makes an overwhelming case that Russian authorities were complicit in these horrific attacks. The New York Review of Books

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Dr. John B. Dunlop is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and recently served as acting director of Stanford University's Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

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