Catastrophic Playground
Stephen Kotkin: Chechnya, 18 October 2001
A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya
by Anna Politkovskaya, translated by John Crowfoot.
Harvill, 336 pp., £12, June 2001,1 86046 897 7 Show More
by Anna Politkovskaya, translated by John Crowfoot.
Harvill, 336 pp., £12, June 2001,
Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus
by Svante Cornell.
Curzon, 480 pp., £57.88, January 2001,0 7007 1162 7 Show More
by Svante Cornell.
Curzon, 480 pp., £57.88, January 2001,
“... economies. Rarely, if at all, has this calamity been analysed in the round, but that is what Svante Cornell has now done. He properly dismisses all the nonsense about a ‘civilisational divide’. Primarily Eastern Orthodox Russia supports the Muslim Ajars inside Eastern Orthodox Georgia; relations between Christian Armenia and Georgia are tense ... ”