The Post-War Reconstruction in the Chechen Republic

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2025-4/54-72

Authors

  • Georgy Korytin the Russian Academy of Sciences N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

Keywords:

traditions, Islamic values, social institutions, post-conflict reconstruction

Abstract

The article is devoted to the processes of post-war reconstruction in the Chechen Republic, from 2000 to the present. Nowadays, the issues of reconstruction and overcoming the consequences of ethnopolitical conflicts are not so often the focus of attention of social anthropologists. The author relied on field materials collected in 2023–2024 in the Chechen Republic. The article examines the demographic, socio-economic and cultural damage caused to Chechnya as a result of the conflicts. It considers the difficult process of rebuilding the social infrastructure, as well as the means and methods by which this became possible.  Based on field materials and literary data, the article analyzes the role of some Chechen traditions, social institutions and Islamic moral values in the restoration of Chechnya. The article also analyzes the processes and problems that were observed in rural areas in Chechnya, both immediately after the end of active hostilities, and in our days.

Author Biography

  • Georgy Korytin, the Russian Academy of Sciences N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

    Korytin, Georgy S. — Postgraduate student, the Russian Academy of Sciences N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Moscow, Russian Federation). E-mail: e.korytin@list.ru

    For citation: Korytin, G. S. 2025. The Post-War Reconstruction in the Chechen Republic. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii) 4: 54–72.

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Published

14.12.2025

Issue

No. 4 (2025): Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik antropologii)

Section

The Anthropology of Modern Society