A small corner of hell : dispatches from Chechnya / Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky ; with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Politkovskai︠a︡, Anna.

Standardized Title:

Vtorai͡a chechenskai͡a. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Politkovskai︠a︡, Anna.

Chechni︠a︡ (Russia)--History--Civil War, 1994---Press coverage.

Chechni︠a︡ (Russia).

Chechni︠a︡ (Russia)--History--Civil War, 1994---Journalists.

Chechni︠a︡ (Russia)--History--Civil War, 1994---Personal narratives, Russian.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 224 pages) : map

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English. Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

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 Moscow in 1999, allegedly orchestrated by a rebel faction, reignited the war, which continues to rage today. Russia has gone to great lengths to keep journalists from reporting on the conflict; consequently, few people outside the region understand its scale and the atrocities-described by eyewitnesses as comparable to those discovered in Bosnia-committed there. Anna Politkovskaya, a correspondent for the liberal Moscow newspaper Novaya gazeta, was the only journalist to have constant access to the region. Her international stature and reputation for honesty among the Chechens allowed her to continue to report to the world the brutal tactics of Russia's leaders used to quell the uprisings. A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya is her second book on this bloody and prolonged war. More than a collection of articles and columns, A Small Corner of Hell offers a rare insider's view of life in Chechnya over the past years. Centered on stories of those caught-literally-in the crossfire of the conflict, her book recounts the horrors of living in the midst of the war, examines how the war has affected Russian society, and takes a hard look at how people on both sides are profiting from it, from the guards who accept bribes from Chechens out after curfew to the United Nations. Politkovskaya's unflinching honesty and her courage in speaking truth to power combine here to produce a powerful account of what is acknowledged as one of the most dangerous and least understood conflicts on the planet. Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in Moscow on October 7, 2006. "The murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya leaves a terrible silence in Russia and an information void about a dark realm that we need to know more about. No one else reported as she did on the Russian north Caucasus and the abuse of human rights there. Her reports made for difficult reading-and Politkovskaya only got where she did by being one of life's difficult people."-Thomas de Waal, Guardian

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Politkovskai︠a︡, Anna. Small corner of hell.

ISBN:

9786611966225

9781281966223

1281966223

9780226674346

0226674347

OCLC:

646783202