Book – Nathalie Duclos (Ed), War Veterans in Postwar Situations Chechnya, Serbia, Turkey, Peru, and Côte d’Ivoire, Forthcoming June 2012


War Veterans in Postwar Situations, 
Chechnya, Serbia, Turkey, Peru, and Côte d’Ivoire
 Edited by Nathalie Duclos
 Series: Sciences Po Series in IR and PE
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Book – French version of “The Tanks of August”, R. Pukhov (Ed.)

The Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies released a French version of the book “The Tanks of August” – “Les chars d’Août”

Les chars d’Août / M.S. Barabanov, A.V. Lavrov, V.A. Tselouïko, sous la direction de R. Poukhov, préface d’Yves Boyer. – Moscou, Centre d’Analyse des Stratégies et des Technologies, 2010. 144 p. Available in pdf format http://www.cast.ru/files/Ta_fr_cp_1_2.pdf

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Nationalities Papers – Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, “Russian military patriotic education: a control tool against the arbitrariness of veterans”

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, “Russian military patriotic education: a control tool against the arbitrariness of veterans”, Nationalities Papers, Volume 38, Issue 1 January 2010 , pp. 73 – 85.

Abstract

The military had been concerned about military patriotic education for a long time when Putin’s Patriotic Education Programme was published. As soon as the collapse of the Soviet Union occurred, followed a few years later by the creation of the Russian armed forces, they had already been developing patriotic education programmes aimed primarily at youth, aided by veterans of local wars, both volunteers and recruits. Continue reading