Books by Thomas de Waal and Carlotta Gall
A Small Victorious War
by Thomas de Waal and Carlotta Gall
A very thorough, practical guide to the first of two post-Soviet wars in Chechnya. The authors interviewed everyone connected with the war, except maybe Boris Yeltsin. Their book tells the story of how and why newly independent Russia, in 1991, first gave its various ethnic minorities what the president called “as much independence as you can swallow” and then, a couple of years later, reined them back in – and how Chechnya, alone, refused to give in, leading to war.
Interviews where books by Thomas de Waal and Carlotta Gall were recommended
The best books on Chechnya, recommended by Vanora Bennett
Award-winning reporter and novelist Vanora Bennett says there are no superlatives too superlative for Anna Politkovskaya, who, after three books and innumerable investigative reporting trips to Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow
