Anna Politkovskaya’s new book, “Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy.”
Anna Politkovskaya’s new book, "Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy."
Once again, Politkovskaya has given the West a volume that demands attention. In her anguished voice, "Putin’s Russia" is a cri de coeur for a society hardened to the suffering of its own people, a democracy in name only that has been warped beyond recognition by a coterie of mobsters, chinovniki, New Russians and, as Politkovskaya tells the tale, by the tsar himself, Vladimir Putin.
For all the desire in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin to view Putin’s Russia through rose-colored glasses, Politkovskaya keeps tearing off the shades and forcing readers to confront the reality she sees. Depressing and discouraging, her latest book nonetheless is a must-read for anyone who does not live in Russia but hopes to get beyond the surface understanding of it that prevails in the West. Perhaps "Putin’s Russia" will be assigned reading for the Western leaders scheduled to come to St. Petersburg in July for the first G8 summit hosted by Russia.
Sadly and tellingly, however, it will not be available to Russians themselves, since no Russian publisher has dared to print and sell it inside the country.
Link: CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times.
my comment : This book is highly recommended to those who wish to come here..better let u’rself prepared before u head to the "land of the long winter: and had an traumatic shock.It isnt worth it…
