Chechnya at War and Beyond

Introduction Anne Le Huérou, Aude Merlin, Amandine Regamey, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

Part 1: Traces of War: Between Remembrance and Erasing
1. Grozny as Before the War: Remembrance and Reconciliation in ‘Virtual’ and ‘Real’ Post-Soviet Communities Walter Sperling
2. Remembering and Forgetting in Chechnya Today: Using the Great Patriotic War to Create a New Historical Narrative Aude Merlin
3. Victims and Heroes: Commemorating the Russian Military Casualties in the Chechen Conflicts Natalya Danilova
4. Reconstruction in Chechnya, at the Intersection between Politics and the Economy Musa Basnukaev

Part 2: State and Non-State Rationales of Violence
5. State and Violence in Chechnya: 1997-1999 Ekaterina Sokirianskaya
6. Kidnapping and Hostage Taking between the Two Chechen Wars: 1997-1999 Mikhail Roshchin
7. Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘Illiberal’ Peace in Chechnya John Russell
8. Between War Experience and Ordinary Police Rationales: State Violence against Civilians in Post-war Chechen Republic Anne Le Huérou
9. The North Caucasus Insurgency: Understanding the Chechen Rebels in the Context of the Caucasus Emirate Jean-François Ratelle

Part 3: The Impact of War on Chechen Society
10. Rereading Human Rights Reports: Material Violence in Chechnya: 1999-2001 Amandine Regamey
11. Sufism in Chechnya: Its Influence on Contemporary Society Mayrbek Vachagaev
12. Virtue Campaign for Women in Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov: Between War Backlash Effect and Desire for Total Control Tanya Lokshina
13. Chechen Refugees in Europe: How Three Generations of Women Settle in Exile Alice Szczepanikova

Anne Le Huérou is a Lecturer in Contemporary Russian and Post Soviet studies at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre - Institut des Sciences sociales du politique (ISP) and a Research Associate at the Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC), l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Paris. France.

Aude Merlin is a Lecturer in Political Sciences at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, specialized in Russian and Caucasus studies, member of the CEVIPOL (www.cevipol.be).

Amandine Regamey is a Lecturer in Russian Language at University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and a Research Associate at the Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC), l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski is a Research Associate at the Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC), l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.