The Moscow bombings of September 1999 : examinations of Russian terrorist attacks at the onset of Vladimir Putin's rule / John B. Dunlop ; with a foreword by Amy Knight.
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- 283 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- [Second, revised and expanded edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, 2014.
- Summary:
- The five chapters contained in 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 eye-witnesses 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. Book jacket.
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- I "Storm in Moscow": A Plan of the Yeltsin "Family" to Destablize Russia 13
- II The Hunt for "False-Laipnov": The Spetember 1999 Moscow Bombings 77
- III The "Ryazan Incident" 167
- IV The Trials of the Buinaksk Bombers: Judicial Anarchy? 217
- V The Volgodonsk Apartment House Bombing 237.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
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- OCLC:
- 877850435
- Publisher Number:
- 99959050376
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- The Lipman Criminology Library Fund Home Page
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