LEADER 05200nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910782535503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96622-3 010 $a9786611966225 010 $a0-226-67434-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226674346 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578645 035 $a(EBL)432154 035 $a(OCoLC)646783202 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246884 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11237246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246884 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188977 035 $a(PQKB)10185003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432154 035 $a(DE-B1597)523894 035 $a(OCoLC)824151849 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226674346 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432154 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265914 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196622 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578645 100 $a20030429d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA small corner of hell$b[electronic resource] $edispatches from Chechnya /$fAnna Politkovskaya ; translated by Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky ; with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-67432-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tINTRODUCTION. WHOSE TRUTH? -- $tPROLOGUE -- $tORDINARY CHECHEN LIFE IN WARTIME -- $tMODERN RUSSIAN LIFE AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE WAR -- $tWHO WANTS THIS WAR? -- $tEPILOGUE. LONDON, MAY 2002: AN ENDING WITHOUT CLOSURE -- $tAFTERWORD. YELLOW ON BLACK 330 $aChechnya, 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 606 $aHISTORY / General$2bisacsh 607 $aChechni?a (Russia)$xHistory$yCivil War, 1994-$xPress coverage 607 $aChechni?a (Russia)$xHistory$yCivil War, 1994-$xJournalists 607 $aChechni?a (Russia)$xHistory$yCivil War, 1994-$vPersonal narratives, Russian 610 $achechnya, journalism, journalists, news, media studies, caucasus, russia, russian, independence, war, governance, bandits, warlords, conflict, moscow, rebellion, novaya gazeta, uprisings, honesty, courage, death, loss, murder, dangerous, personal narratives, press coverage, 20th century, history, historical, wartime, united nations, chechen republic, eastern europe, north caucasian federal district, aggression, violence, power. 615 7$aHISTORY / General. 676 $a947/.52 700 $aPolitkovskai?a$b Anna$0513969 701 $aBurry$b Alexander$01088870 701 $aDerluguian$b Georgi M$01463191 701 $aTulchinsky$b Tatiana$01545445 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782535503321 996 $aA small corner of hell$93800382 997 $aUNINA