Putin's Russia : life in a failing democracy / Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait.
"Rich with characters, stories, and vivid detail, Putin's Russia depicts a far-reaching state of decay. Anna Politkovskaya describes an army in which conscripts are untrained and unarmed and even hired out as slaves, soldiers the from malnutrition, and parents must pay numerous bribes to r...
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| Other title: | Putinskai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Russian |
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New York :
Metropolitan Books,
©2005.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Summary: | "Rich with characters, stories, and vivid detail, Putin's Russia depicts a far-reaching state of decay. Anna Politkovskaya describes an army in which conscripts are untrained and unarmed and even hired out as slaves, soldiers the from malnutrition, and parents must pay numerous bribes to recover their dead sons' bodies. She decries the rampant corruption in business, government, and the judiciary, where everything from store permits to bus routes to court appointments is for safe. And she offers a searing condemnation of the war in Chechnya, arguing that the army's routine kidnappings, extra-judicial killings, rape, and torture are producing terrorism rather than fighting it. In a powerful denunciation. Politkovskaya points an accusing finger at both Vladimir Putin, a former KGB spy who, she claims, is stifling all civil liberties as he moves the country back to a Soviet-style dictatorship, and the West for its unqualified embrace of the Russian leader."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: London : Harvill Press, 2004. |
| Physical Description: | 274 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0805079300 (hc) |