General Information

Uniform Title

Vtoraia chechenskaia.

Author/Creator

Politkovskaia, Anna, 1958-2006

Language

English.

Published

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Physical Description

vi, 224 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

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, is the only journalist to have constant access to the region. Her international stature and reputation for honesty among the Chechens have 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.

Subjects

Subject

Politkovskaia, Anna, 1958-2006

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

Chechnia (Russia) > History > Civil War, 1994- > Journalists.

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

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky ; with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian.

Content

Introduction. Whose Truth? by Georgi Derluguian -- Prologue. London, May 2002: The Beginning -- Ordinary Chechen Life in Wartime. -- It's Nice to Be Deaf -- The Chiri-Yurt Settlement -- Makhkety: A Concentration Camp with a Commercial Streak -- A Zone within a Zone -- The Hundredth Grozny Blockade -- Viktoria and Aleksandr: Grozny Newlyweds -- A Village That No Longer Exists -- A Lawless Enclave -- A Nameless Girl from Nowhere -- The Burning Cross of Tsotsan-Yurt -- Starye Atagi: The Twentieth Purge -- V-Day -- The Chechen Choice: From the Carpet to the Conveyer Belt -- What Are the Rules of the Game? -- Modern Russian Life against the Backdrop of the War -- Ruslan Aushev: "Nobody Guarantees Life in Chechnya Today" -- A Pogrom -- Five Hundred Rubles for Your Wife: The Chechnya Special Operation Ruins the Country -- Chechnya's Unique Islam -- Executions of Reporters -- Russia's Secret Heroes -- Killed by His Own -- It's Hard to Get Cartridges in Mozhaisk -- Who Wants This War? -- An Oligarchy of Generals -- Miracle Fields -- Boys and Girls -- Westernizers and Orientals -- Chechnya as the Price for the UN Secretary-General's Post -- Special Operation Zyazikov -- We Survived Again!: A Chronicle of Colonel Mironov's Luck -- Epilogue. London 2002: An Ending without Closure -- Afterword. Yellow on Black.

ISBN

0226674320

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	947/.52 POL		Reference	-

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