Статья посвящена историографической проблематике вооруженного конфликта конца ХХ в. в Чеченской Республике. Проведенное исследование позволило выявить оценки и интерпретации, присущие увидевшим свет во Франции, Германии и Польше публикациям на французском, немецком и польском языках, освещающим либо затрагивающим проблематику вооруженного конфликта в Чечне.
The article deals with the problems of historiography of the armed conflict in the Che-chen Republic. The activephase of themilitary operationsofthe armed conflictin Chechnyawas completedin2001. At that timehistorians, analysts andjournalists created awide range of theo-retical worksconcerningthe conflict.Inthese publications there were discussed a number of commonfeaturesofthe use ofbasicresources. The degree ofaccessibilityof the sourceswhichfo-cus onthe descriptionof the conflictand itssocio-political assessment is of great importance for researchersand their objectives. The author analyzes Western (European) historiography of the armed conflict in the Chechen Republic. It considers the publications and specialized mo- nographs of European (French, German and Polish) authors on the subjects under research. There areput forward the ideas of the consequences of the armed conflict in the Chechen Re-public, articulated in the works of European researchers.For the first time within the study of the Western historiography of the war in Chechnya the author analyzes the main blocks of the supposed and factual consequences of the conflict for both the Russian and Chechen sides. The European historiography, dedicated tothe armed conflictin Chechnya, is just being develo- pedand thestate ofitsdocumentarycomplexis characterized bya number ofqualitative changes.