The rise of Putin through the Chechen conflict was only the peak of his political activity. First of all, he managed to build the foundations for the creation of a strong political figure through various legal and illegal donations to the strongest private individuals of the time, the oligarchs. Furthermore, in Chechnya, he showed that his reform of the army was necessary in order to show the world that Russia will not be someone's political puppet after the collapse of the USSR, but that it will continue to have a great influence on the rest of the world and events in geopolitics. The first chapter dealt with the arrival of the newly elected president Boris Yeltsin, who after Mikhail Gorbachev managed to return to the people what was taken away during communism. The second part deals with the geographical aspects of Chechnya and how geography helped and hindered both sides during the first Chechen war. The third part deals with the arrival of Vladimir Putin, as well as his very beginnings in the KGB as well as activities outside the border. The period of the Second Chechen War, which shaped today's relations between Russia and Chechnya, is also covered. The last chapter deals with the extent to which Vladimir Putin brought about a new "Stalinization" of society and how he developed an autocratic state from a newly democratic society through various reforms.