A small corner of hell dispatches from Chechnya

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780226674346 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0226674347 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0226674320 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (vi, 224 p.) : map.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:apr.13 CatBulkString:apr.11.13 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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;
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.