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The first part of this work focuses on the history of Chechnya over the last two centuries. The book then goes on to analyze the Russian invasion of Chechnya in 1994 - and its aftermath - after Chechnya's declaration of independence in 1991. This invasion, it shows, was not an isolated event, but only the most recent in a long series of wars waged against the Chechen people of the North Caucasus. After 1991, Chechyna was subjected to an economic blockade and campaign of destabilization by Moscow in an attempt to bring the republic back under its control. The failure of this strategy in the face of Dzhokhar Dudaev's resistance precipitated a bloody confrontation which levelled the capital city, Grozny, and cost the lives of several thousand Russian soldiers and countless Chechens.