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RUSSIA'S ISLAMIC THREAT, Gordon M. Hahn, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, 368 pages, $35.00.
Russia's Islamic Threat provides meticulously detailed research and analysis about Islamic separatism in Russia, focusing on two particular areas-the Sufi Islamic North Caucasus (with a special emphasis on Chechnya) and Tatarstan/Bashkortostan, where a jihad movement holds sway.
Hahn sees two types of Islamic separatism in the Russian Federation-violent, radical rebellion, supported by a small percentage of the population in the North Caucasus, and a potentially broader-based and more moderate political movement for self-determination in the Tatar/ Bashkortostan...