A small corner of hell [electronic resource] : dispatches from Chechnya / Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky ; with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 224 p.) : mapISBN: - 9780226674346 (electronic bk.)
- 0226674347 (electronic bk.)
- Vtorai͡a︡ chechenskai͡a︡. English
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- DK511.C37 P654 2003eb
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INTRODUCTION: WHOSE TRUTH?; PROLOGUE; ORDINARY CHECHEN LIFE IN WARTIME; MODERN RUSSIAN LIFE AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE WAR; WHO WANTS THIS WAR?; EPILOGUE: LONDON, MAY 2002: AN ENDING WITHOUT CLOSURE; AFTERWORD: YELLOW ON BLACK;
The recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian government, particularly with regard to its policies in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the liberal Moscow newspaper Novaya gazeta. Beginning in 1999, Politkovskaya authored numerous articles about the war in Chechnya, and she was the only journalist to have constant access to the region.Politkovskaya's second book on the Chechen War, A Small Corner of Hell, offers an insider's v.
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