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A Dirty War
Random House 2009; US$ 20.00The Chechen War was supposed to be over in 1996 after the first Yeltsin campaign, but in the summer of 1999, the new Putin government decided, in their own words, to 'do the job properly'. Before all the bodies of those who had died in the first campaign had been located or identified, many more thousands would be slaughtered in another round of fighting.... more...
Putin's Russia
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 16.99A searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from ?the bravest of Russian 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 her steely gaze on the multiple threats... more...
Putin's Russia
Random House 2012; US$ 13.34Internationally admired for her reporting, especially on the Chechen wars, award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya has turned her steely gaze on the man who, until very recently, was a darling of the Western media. A former KGB spy, Vladimir Putin was named President of Russia in 2000. From the moment he entered the public arena he marketed... more...
A Russian Diary
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 25.95Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia?s most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow in the fall of 2006. Just before her death, Politkovskaya completed this searing, intimate record of life in Russia from the parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the grim summer of 2005, when the nation was still reeling from the horrors... more...
Nothing But the Truth
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 12.00From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary . Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, winning international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian politics and state corruption. Nothing But the Truth... more...
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?
Melville House 2011; US$ 19.95A collection of final dispatches by the famed journalist, including the first translation of the work that may have led to her murder Anna Politkovskaya won international fame for her courageous reporting. Is Journalism Worth Dying For? is a long-awaited collection of her final writing. Beginning with a brief introduction by the author about... more...
A Russian Diary
Random House 2008; US$ 12.00A 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 unflinching record of the plight of millions of Russians... more...
A Small Corner of Hell
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 17.00Chechnya, 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 Moscow in 1999, allegedly orchestrated by a rebel... more...
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