Fighting for Self-Determination, Participation and Control

Cécile Druey is a researcher and lecturer in international history and politics at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Her main academic interest is conflict and conflict transformation in the former Soviet space, with a particular focus on the North Caucasus, Ukraine and Russia.Murat Shogenov holds a PhD in social psychology from the Kabardino-Balkaria State University in Nalchik (Russian Federation). He has conducted research in the field of conflict and peace studies as part of various international projects. His research focuses on identity politics, nationalism and conflicts between North Caucasian communities in Russia.Valentina Tanaylova is a researcher at the Center for Ethnopolitical Studies at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. She is primarily concerned with memory research, trauma and the anthropology of war.

• Contents - Introduction - Perestroika and the Decolonisation of Historical Memory (1986-1991) - Independence (1): Memory and Statebuilding under Dzhokhar Dudyaev (1991-1996) - Memory Conflicts and Chechenisation (1999-2021) - New and Old Dividing Lines, and the Powerlessness of Those Who Remember (2022-2023) - Conclusion - Appendices - Index