A Small Corner of Hell : Dispatches from Chechnya

Burry, Alexander ; Tulchinsky, Tatiana

Englisch

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008

Online-Ressource (234 p)

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Print version: A Small Corner of Hell : Dispatches from Chechnya

978-0-226-67433-9

978-0-226-67434-6 : 35.32 (NL)

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-226-67432-2 (Druckausgabe)

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

*Electronic books

*Chechn︠i︡a (Russia) ; History ; Civil War, 1994- ; Journalists ; Chechn︠i︡a (Russia) ; History ; Civil War, 1994- ; Personal narratives, Russian ; Chechn︠i︡a (Russia) ; History ; Civil War, 1994- ; Press coverage ; Politkovska︠i︡a, Anna ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: DK511 ; DK511.C37P654 2003 ; DK511.C37

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 947.52 ; 947/.52; ; 947/.52;

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

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