This section brings together a curated selection of key works on the history of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, the Chechen wars, and the geopolitical context of the North Caucasus.​

The aim is to provide scholars, journalists, students, and interested readers with a solid foundation for exploring:​

The origins and development of the Chechen national movement;

The two wars fought by the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria against the Russian Federation (1994–1996, 1999–2009);

The internal politics, society, and institutions of Ichkeria;

The role of international actors and the media in the Chechen conflict;

The diaspora, resistance, and exile after the fall of Grozny.​

The works listed reflect a variety of perspectives—Chechen, Russian, Western—and include both academic studies and first-hand accounts. The bibliography is updated regularly and divided into thematic and linguistic sections to facilitate consultation.

If you wish to suggest additions or corrections, do not hesitate to contact us via the contact page.

AA.VV. (John Mackinlay, Peter Cross) – Regional peacekeepers:
The paradox of Russian peacekeeping (ENG)

AA.VV. (Stephen J, Blank, Earl H., Tilford) – Russia’s Invasion of Chechnya: A Preliminary Assessment (ENG)

AA.VV. (James M. Goldgeiger, Michael MacFaul) – Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia After the Cold War(ENG)

AA.VV. (Stanislav Dmitrevsky, Bogdan Gvraeli, Oksana Chelysheva) – Tribunale Internazionale per la Cecenia (RUS)

AA.VV. (Lester W. Grau, William A. Jorgensen) – Viral Hepatitis and the Russian war in Chechnya (ENG)

AA.VV. (Konstantin V. Yumatov, Ekaterina G. Kolpinskaya) – The “Chechen question” in European – Russian relations (ENG)

AA.VV. (Anne Speckard, Akhmedova Khapta) The new chechen jihad: Wahabism as a radical movement and a source of suicide terrorism in Post- War chechen society

AA.VV. – Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus (ENG)

Adler, Sabine – Dovevo morire da vedova nera (ITA)

Akhmadov, Ilyas: Chechnya secret’s wartime diplomacy (ENG)

Akhmadov, Ilyas: The chechen struggle: independence won and lost (ENG)

Al-Suwaylim, Sāmir Ṣālaḥ ʿAbd Allāh (Ibn Al – Khattab) – “Memories of Amir Khattab: The Experience of the Arab Ansar in Cecenia, Afghanistan e Tagikistan” (RUS)

Allaman, Jacques: Cecenia. Ovvero l’irresistibile ascesa di Vladimir Putin (ITA)

Arbatov, Alexiei – The transformation of russian military doctrine: lesson learned from Kosovo and Chechnya (ENG)

Arquilla, John – Insurgents, raiders and bandits (ENG)

Astashkin, N.S. – Cronache delle guerre cecene (RUS)

Babchenko, Arkadij – La guerra di un soldato in Cecenia (ITA)

Baiev, Khassan – The Oath. A surgeon under fire (ENG)

Balmaceda, Margarita – Energy dependancy, politics and corruption in the former Soviet Union (ENG)

Barnard, Paolo – Perchè ci odiano (ITA)

Benedetti, Carlo – Il rischio Cecenia. Un incerto futuro tra guerre, genocidi, kamikaze e la nuova Russia (ITA)

Bennett, Vanora – Crying wolf: the return of war to Chechnya (ENG)

Bensi, Giovanni – La Cecenia e la polveriera del Caucaso (ITA)

Belin, Laura – Russian media policy in the first and second Chechen campaigns (ENG)

Billingsley, Dodge – Fangs of the lone wolf: Chechen tactics in the Russian – Chechen war 1994 – 2009

Binet, Laurence – La guerra di Maaka e Pavel (ITA)

Bjorken, Johanna – Welcome to hell: arbitray detention, torture and extortion in Chechnya (ENG)

Blandy, C. W. – Chechnya: federal retribution “encirclement, forceful intervention and isolation” (ENG)

Bohelay, Philippe, Daubard, Olivier – Lettera dalla Cecenia (ITA)

Cassidy, Robert M. – Russia in Afghanistan and Chechnya : military strategic culture and the paradoxes of asymmetric conflict (ENG)

Cayias, Jennifer – A strategic analisys of the Chechen Wars (ENG)

Cornell, Svante – Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus (ENG)

Derluguian, Georgi M. – Bourdieu’s, secret admirer of the Caucasus (ENG)

Dudaeva, Alla – Million First (RUS)

Dunlop, John B. – Russia confront Chechnya: roots of a separatist conflict (ENG)

Dutko, Viktor – Chechen Fighters in The Ukrainian Conflict
“Towards a New Typology of Chechen Foreign Fighters Groups” (ENG)

Eldin, Mikail – The sky wept fire (ENG)

Evangelista, Matthew – The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? (ENG)

Finch, Raymond C. (MAJ) – Why the russian military failed in Chechnya (ENG)

Fowkes, Ben – Russia and Chechnya: the permanent crisis (ENG)

Gall, Charlotte & De Waal, Thomas – Chechnya, a small victorious war (ENG)

Gall, Charlotte & De Waal, Thomas –Chechnya, Calamity of the Caucasus (ENG)

Galeotti, Mark – Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 (ENG)

Gammer, Moshe – The Lone Wolf And the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule (ENG)

Gilligan, Emma – Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War (ENG)

German, Tracey – Russia’s Chechen Wars (ENG)

Gomel, Elana – A State of War: Russian Leaders and Citizens Interpret the Chechen Conflict (ENG)

Goldenberg, Suzanne – Pride of Small Nations: The Caucasus and Post-Soviet Disorder (ENG)

Goldman, Nichol, Russian Conflict in Chechnya (ENG)

Greene, Stanley – Open Wound: Chechnya, 1994-2003 (ENG)

Gorodetsky, Gabriel – Russia Between East and West
Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshhold of the Twenty-First Century (ENG)

Henze, Paul B. – Islam in the North Caucasus: the case of Chechnya (ENG)

Hughes, James – Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad (National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century) (ENG)

IMSISS Dissertation – “The Motivations of Foreign Fighters: The Case of the Chechen Diaspora in Ukraine” (ENG)

Jaimoukha, Amjad – Chechens: A Handbook (ENG)

Kadyrov, Akhmat – Conflitto russo – ceceno: genesi, essenza, metodi di risoluzione (RUS)

Kermach, Ruslan – The Separatism of Chechnya in 1991: Prerequisites
for the Republic’s Secession from Russia (ENG)

Lapidus, Gail – The War in Chechnya: Opportunities Missed, Lessons to be Learned (ENG)

Leitzinger, Antero – Caucasus and an Unholy Alliance /ENG)

Lenincrew – Riforme agrarie nell’Ichkeria prebellica (RUS)

Lieven, Anatol – Chechnya, tombstone of russian power (ENG)

Littell, Jonathan – Cecenia, anno III (ITA)

Lutz, Raymond – Russian Strategy in Chechnya: a Case Study in Failure (ENG)

Magnusson, Marta – Lisa – The Negotiation Process between Russia and Chechenia – Strategies, achievements and Future Problems (ENG)

Malishevsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich – English – language historiography of the armed conflict in Chechnya (RUS)

Malko, Victoria A. – The Chechen Wars: Responses in Russia and the United States. (ENG)

Maskhadov, Anzor – Min far, Tsjetsjenias president (NOR)

Matveeva, Anna – The North Caucasus: Russia’s fragile borderland (ENG)

Meier, Andrew – Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict  (ENG)

Mesbahi, Mohiaddin – Central Asia and the Caucasus after the Soviet Union (ENG)

Metz, Femke M. – A Qualitative Content Analysis on Motivation in the Dzhokhar Dudayev and Sheikh al Mansur Battalion (ENG)

Mikhailov, Alexander – Ruota Cecena (RUS)

Murauskaite, Egle E. – FOREIGN FIGHTERS IN
UKRAINE: ASSESSING POTENTIAL RISKS (ENG)

Nivat, Anne – Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya (ENG)

Nussio, Ricky J. (MAJ) – Tanks in the Street: Lessons Learned Through
Bytes not Blood (ENG)

Oliker, Olga – Russia’s Chechen Wars 1994 – 2000 (ENG)

Osmaev, Abbas Dogievich – Situazione sociopolitica e vita quotidiana nella Repubblica Cecena dal 1996 al 2005 (RUS)

Spike, James – Urban operations in Chechnya: lessons learned and implications for U.S. Urban Doctrine and training

Panico, Christopher – Conflicts in the Caucasus: Russia’s War in Chechnya (ENG)

Politkovskaya, Anna & Derlugian Georgi M. – A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya (ENG)

Politkovskaya, Anna – A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya (ENG)

Ram, Harsha – Prisoners of the Caucasus: Literary Myths and Media Representations of the Chechen Conflict (ENG)

Ratelle, Jean Francois – The North Caucasus, the Future of Russia, and
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine (ENG)

Richter, Andrei – Journalism and War Media Coverage in The Chechen Conflict (RUS)

Sandler, Efim – Battle for Grozny: Prelude and the Way to the City, 1994 (1)

Seely, Robert – The Russian-Chechen Conflict 1800-2000 (ENG)

Serebryannikov, V.V.: Kosovo e guerre cecene nella coscienza di massa della Russia e dell’Occidente (RUS)

Seymour, L.J.M. – Pathways to Secession: Separatist Trajectories in Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya and Kosov (ENG)

Shaefer, Robert – The Insurgency in Chechnya and North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad (ENG)

Shirelman, Victor A. – A Revolt of Social Memory: the Chechens and the Ingush against the Soviet Historians (ENG)

Sladkov, Alexander – L’altra faccia della guerra (RUS)

Smith, M.A. – A Chronology of the chechen conflict

Smith, Sebastian – Allah’s Mountains: The Battle For Chechnya (ENG)

Stasys Knezys, Romanas Sedlickas – The War in Chechnya (ENG)

Souleimanov, Emil – An Endless War: the Russian – Chechen conflict in perspective (ENG)

Souleimanov, Emil – Larys, Martin – Driven by Revenge: Why Chechen Foreign Fighters Have Joined Ukraine Against Russia (ENG)

Stone, David – A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya (ENG)

Taramov, Mayrbek – The Crimes of the Russian Century in Chechnya (ENG)

Tarik, Abdel Monem – The European Court of Human Rights: Chechnya’s Last Chance? (ENG)

Temishev, Musa – Perchè la Russia e l’Ichkeria non sono l’America? (RUS)

Tishkov, Valery – Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society (ENG)

Trenin, Dmitri V. – Russia’s restless frontier: the chechnya factor in post – soviet Russia (ENG)

Troshev, Gennady – La Mia Guerra: Diario di un generale in trincea

Troshev, Gennady – Recidiva Cecena: note del comandante

Troshev, Gennady – Pausa Cecena: diari e ricordi

Turnoff Atrokhov, Wendy – The Khasavyurt Accords: Maintaining the Rule of Law and Legitimacy of Democracy in the Russian Federation Amidst the Chechen Crisis (ENG)

Vatchagaev, Mairbek – Chechnya, the Inside Story (ENG)

Wegren, Stephen K. – Putin’s Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (ENG)

Wilhelmsen, Julie – Between a rock and an hard place: the islamization of the chechen separatist movemente (ENG)

Wood, Tony – Chechnya: The Case for Independence (ENG)

Wood, Tony – The Case for Chechnya (ENG)

Yandarbiev, Zelimkhan – Cecenia, battaglia per la libertà (RUS)

Yordanov, Marat – Società Segreta Ichkeria (RUS)

Zakayev, Akhmed – Subjugate or Exterminate! A memoir of Russia’s war aganist Chechnya (ENG)

Zurcher, Christoph – The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus (ENG)