Abstract
Today’s Russian-Chechen conflict is based upon a long history of colonization and domination. Although the historic conflict relies upon an underlying mentality of “us†versus “them,†this assumption does not serve as the core identity marker of Chechen identity. Instead, the 1944 deportations, in which Stalinist Russia deported and exiled half a million Chechens, has become the primary national identity marker. This suggests that when an ethnic group has experienced deportations, their historic memories will serve a greater role in collective identity construction than any other relationship they have with that adversary.
Highlights
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The present Russian-Chechnya conflicts are based upon a long history of colonization and domination, inflicted upon the Chechen people by the Tsarist, Soviet and modern Russian Federation governments, all of which have denied Chechnya of political and religious autonomy
Chechen identity today is established upon a foundation of opposition with Russia, while the primary identity referred to by the Chechens is related to a revival of the collective memories of the 1944 deportations
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Stream is interested in publishing articles and book reviews by Canadian graduate students in communication studies and related fields. Papers should fit into one of the three proposed “streams,” but we invite contributors to challenge their conceptions of these subjects with interdisciplinary approaches to these subject areas. We hope that this student initiative will become a space for graduate students to publish new work and expand upon new ideas, contributing to a thriving graduate intellectual culture
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