false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172430320m/174734.jpg 174734 9 <div><div><b>A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its helm, from &#8220;the bravest of journalists&#8221; (<i>The New York Times</i>)</b></div><div> </div><div>Hailed as &#8220;a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness&#8221; (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her fearless reporting on the war in Chechnya. Now she turns her steely gaze on the multiple threats to Russian stability, among them President Putin himself.</div><div><br>Putin&#8217;s Russia depicts a far-reaching state of decay. Politkovskaya describes an army in which soldiers die from malnutrition, parents must pay bribes to recover their dead sons&#8217; bodies, and conscripts are even hired out as slaves. She exposes rampant corruption in business, government, and the judiciary, where everything from store permits to bus routes to court appointments is for sale. And she offers a scathing condemnation of the ongoing war in Chechnya, where kidnappings, extrajudicial killings, rape, and torture are begetting terrorism rather than fighting it.</div><div><br>Sounding an urgent alarm, <i>Putin&#8217;s Russia</i> is both a gripping portrayal of a country in crisis and the testament of a great and intrepid reporter.</div></div> 168791 2003 Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy total:146|5:28|4:62|3:43|2:11|1:2| 146 541 243 37 3 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 16:17:17 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 13:19:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 12:59:07 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 18:47:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 06:06:05 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 24 11:57:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 04 13:31:28 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 19 13:40:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 12:26:34 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 10:37:50 -0800 2008 Her writing is pretty clear and very well understandable, she tells her re...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 21 11:29:58 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 11:49:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 07 22:40:19 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 22:41:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jun 18 07:46:44 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 09:44:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 03 14:50:39 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 14:53:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:57:22 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:58:45 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 22 01:58:31 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 09:17:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 01:58:31 -0700 2009 3 1 false false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 09 12:08:41 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 14 16:31:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 25 20:16:42 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 20:17:15 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 22:33:36 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 15:21:17 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jun 17 03:12:40 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 03:24:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon May 07 06:53:10 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 14 06:41:43 -0800 2008
i read this on a train from moscow to petersburg, and it is not political commentary; it is a treatise on the grotesqueness of life and the awful inexplicableness of suffering (which politkovskaya is perhaps a bit too ready to always trace back to putin personally ... but only...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 18 08:02:21 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 13:15:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 20:37:43 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 24 10:49:51 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Aug 11 13:16:26 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 13:22:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon May 04 12:23:54 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 10 08:48:13 -0800 2008 Mon May 04 12:23:54 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=174734