Anne Applebaum, Washington Post columnist and author of Gulag: A History, delivered the ninth of AEI's 2002-2003 Bradley Lectures on May 12, 2003.

The usual trans-Atlantic spats are growing into a full-blown divorce. It is time everyone swept off his own doorstep and closely examined his government's responsibilities.

There are deaths that weigh no more than a feather. Entire peoples who don't count. They have only one right, the right to disappear. They are absent from our concerns and from our television screens, even before the tanks, the bombs, the raids and the landmines reduce them to nothing. The Chechens live in absolute solitude, surrendered to the pleasures of a massacring Russian army.

It's time to put the Chechnya conflict into the broader context of our long-term relations with Russia.

Wars have repeatedly had a decisive influence on Russia's political development, and the present global conflict against fundamentalist Islam is no exception.

A comparative and historical analysis of the crisis in Chechnya.

Islam has been a major and durable aspect of Russia's history, geography, and culture.

Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus cannot long survive in a world where the United States and Russia enjoy a strategic partnership.