Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Islamisation of the Chechen Separatist Movement

@article{Wilhelmsen2005BetweenAR,
  title={Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Islamisation of the Chechen Separatist Movement},
  author={Julie Wilhelmsen},
  journal={Europe-Asia Studies},
  year={2005},
  volume={57},
  pages={35 - 59},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153594637}
}
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