Drawing on her own recollections and interviews with citizens and politicians who dared to speak out, Politkovskaya recalls Constitution Day as a farcical show of celebration with a mentally enfeebled Yelstin in attendance, the Chamber of Commerce president giving a speech "in the register of Soviet servility," an opposing party member being abducted and drugged, and a host of voting irregularities and abuses.
Politkovskaya, a special correspondent for Novaya Gazeta , also takes the Russian press to task for being too cozy with the powerful and too timid to report on blatant corruption.
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Lamenting Russian cynicism and the "disease of paternalism," Politkovskaya is outraged at her fellow citizens' willingness to roll back progress and accept a man comparable to Stalin. Even readers unfamiliar with the names of leaders and towns will recognize the tactics and strategies of corruption, as well as the heartbreak of a people yearning for better representation and accountability. Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie, in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature" Nadine Gordimer "Like all great investigative reporters, Anna Politkovskaya brought forward human truths that rewrote the official story.
We will continue to read her, and learn from her, for years. It is a grave crime against the country, against all of us. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow.
Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late , A Russian Diary is an unflinching record of the plight of millions of Russians and a pitiless report on the cynicism and corruption of Vladimir Putin's Presidency. She interviews people whose lives have been devastated by Putin's policies, including the mothers of children who died in the Beslan siege, those of Russian soldiers maimed in Chechnya then abandoned by the state, and of 'disappeared' young men and women.
Elsewhere she meets traumatised and dangerous veterans of the Chechen wars and a notorious Chechen warlord in his heavily fortified lair. Putin is re-elected as President in farcically undemocratic circumstances and yet Western leaders, reliant on Russia's oil and gas reserves, continue to pay him homage. Politkovskaya, however, offers a chilling account of his dismantling of the democratic reforms made in the s. Independent television, radio and print media are suppressed, opposition parties are forcibly and illegally marginalised, and electoral law is changed to facilitate ballot-rigging.
Yet she also criticises the inability of liberals and democrats to provide a united, effective opposition and a population slow to protest against government legislative outrages. Clear-sighted, passionate and marked with the humanity that made Anna Politkovskaya a heroine to readers throughout the world, A Russian Diary is a devastating account of contemporary Russia by a great and brave writer.
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A Journey into the Real Russia. Trump in the White House. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? From Booklist Politkovskaya was murdered in her apartment shortly after completing her book. All rights reserved Review "Suppression of freedom of speech, of expression, reaches its savage ultimate in the murder of a writer.
To get the free app, enter mobile phone number. See all free Kindle reading apps. Start reading A Russian Diary: With a Foreword by Jon Snow on your Kindle in under a minute. According to the book, Russia under Vladimir Putin reverted into an authoritarian society centered around the ruler. The book has three parts. The initial section covers the Russian legislative election, and the Russian presidential election, The following section discusses the insurgency of the Second Chechen War , the Beslan school siege and its consequences, and other events in the second Putin term.
The last section describes pensioner protests. Robert Legvold of Foreign Affairs wrote, "The tragedies generated by the Chechen war are what she knew best and wrote, knifelike, about".
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Bridget Kendall wrote that the translation was "admirably readable". Andrew Meier wrote in The New York Times that Politskaya's "insightful black humor" is a positive while he criticized elements of the translation and editing, citing references to Russia-related terms unexplained in the text and use of specific British English terms. I must confess that I finished reading A Russian Diary feeling that it should be taken up and dropped from the air in vast quantities throughout the length and breadth of Mother Russia, for all her people to read.
Kirkus Reviews stated that the diary entries in the book "may lack total journalistic objectivity, but Politkovskaya more than justifies her bias with this emotional portrait of the dangerous lives of the Russian people.
Publishers Weekly stated that it was "A rare and intelligent memoir-if an entirely depressing one". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.