Bonds of Blood?
State-building and Clanship in Chechnya and Ingushetia
- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The North Caucasus, specifically Chechnya and Ingushetia, is a region that has experienced some of the deadliest and most protracted conflicts in Europe. By examining the relationship between state and society, this book considers how state-building has unfolded in a region with highly complex social structures, a history of colonialism, Soviet authoritarianism, and later post-Soviet wars and trauma. Focusing on a systematic analysis of subnational state-building in post-Soviet Chechnya and Ingushetia, and the role of teips (clans) in this process, this study responds to the widely accepted academic claim that governance and ethnic consolidation in the North Caucasus is shaped by the politics of teips. Through socio-anthropological analysis of the clans and how they function towards political systems, Sokirianskaia shows how the teips lost their organizational structure and roles, becoming incapable of mobilizing for political action. While teip symbolism has remained politically relevant, and the bonds of kinship are highly important, they do not form the basis of politics and subnational statebuilding in Chechnya and Ingushetia. Consequently, subnational authoritarianism is not the result of the pre-existing social composition of the society, but a reflection of the rules of the game imposed by Moscow and political choices of the Kremlin-installed local elites.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- General Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Theory: Approaches to State and Society
- 2 Political Order and Social Integration prior to, during and after the Caucasian War
- 3 State-Building, Informal Institutions and Social Integration under the Soviet Union (1921–1991)
- 4 Social Integration in Ingushetia and Chechnya
- 5 State-Building Project in Chechnya under Dzhokhar Dudaev (1991–1994)
- 6 State-Building in Chechnya under Aslan Maskhadov (1997–1999)
- 7 State-Building in Ingushetia under Ruslan Aushev (1992–2001)
- 8 In the Authoritarian State: Ingushetia under Murat Zyazikov (2002–2008)
- 9 Ingushetia under Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (2008–2019)
- 10 Chechnya under the Kadyrovs (2000–)
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Imprint