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A Dirty War by Anna Politkovskaya
Category: unmapped
The first account written by a Russian woman of the Chechen conflict, "A Dirty War" is an edgy and intense study of a country in crisis. Exasperated at the Russian government's attempt to manipulate media coverage of the war in Chechnya, journalist Anna Politkovskaya set off for the front line to report ...Show more
A Russian Diary by Anna Politkovskaya
Category: Biography
A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005, A Russian Diary is an unflinchi ...Show more
A Russian Diary by Anna Politkovskaya
Category: History
"A Russian Diary" is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005, "A Russian Diary" is an unfli ...Show more
A SMALL CORNER OF HELL by POLITKOVSKAYA ANNA
Category: History
Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and warlords. A series of apartment building attacks in M ...Show more
Nothing But the Truth : Selected dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya (tr from Russian Arch Tait)
Category: Biography & Memoir
Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta. She won international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian state corruption. Nothing But the Truth is a defining collection of Anna Politkovskaya's best writing for N ...Show more
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
Category: History
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on the Eastern borders of Europe. Anti-establishment journa ...Show more
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya
Category: History
A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of journalists" ("The New York Times") Hailed as "a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness" (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her fearless reporting on the war in Chechnya. Now she turns ...Show more
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