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Sheets' stories about people living through these tectonic shifts of fortune-a trio of female saboteurs in Chechnya, the chaos of newly independent Georgia in the early 1990s, young hustlers eager to strike it rich in the post-Soviet economic vacuum-reveal the underreported and surprising ways in which the ghosts of empire still haunt these lands and the world.
Sheets' stories about people living through these tectonic shifts of fortune-a trio of female saboteurs in Chechnya, the chaos of newly independent Georgia in the early 1990s, young hustlers eager to strike it rich in the post-Soviet economic vacuum-reveal the underreported and surprising ways in which the ghosts of empire still haunt these lands and the world.
Lawrence Scott Sheets reported for National Public Radio for seven years and was NPR’s Moscow bureau chief from 2001-2005, covering the entire former USSR. He was Caucasus region bureau chief for Reuters from 1992-2000 and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University from 2000-2001. He also worked for NBC News in Moscow during 1992 and his work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and heard on the BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and other news outlets. Sheets is currently South Caucasus Project Director of the International Crisis Group, focusing on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
Legal Note
Author’s Note
PART I—FAREWELL LENINGRAD, FAREWELL EMPIRE (1989–1991)
A Civil War Outside My Door
Our Communal
Tears of a KGB Man
A Bigamist Bandit and a Button Maker
Sickle and Hammer Down: An Empire’s Last Hours
PART II—GEORGIA: ANARCHY IN PARADISE (1992–1996)
Nobody Started This War
Exodus
Buried Five Times: Insurgents in Flat Black Nylons
A Word About War
PART III—AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA AT WAR (1993–1996)
Azerbaijan: Lifesaving Carpets
Armenia: A Faded Tintype of Mount Ararat
Azerbaijan: The Shish Kebab War and Eastern Democracy
PART IV—CHECHNYA: ECHOES OF THE DEPORTATION (1993–2004)
Grenade, Lightly Tossed
Grozny
Three Libertine Sabotage Women
A Disappearance
Three Boys Seeking Martyrdom
PART V—RESURRECTIONS: THE ABDICATION OF ATHEISM (1998–2005)
A Nameless Bunch of Bones
A KGB Church and Latter-day Saints
PART VI—CENTRAL ASIA: RISE OF THE RED SULTANS (2001–2002)
Uzbekistan: I Cannot Answer That Question
An Afghan Interlude
The Island of Dr. Moreau
PART VII—REVOLUTIONS, REINDEER, AND RADIATION (2003–2011)
The Flaming Recliner
Last Song of the Ultas
Home, Sweet Chernobyl
The Road to the Schoolhouse
PART VIII—AN EMPIRE EPILOGUE
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780307395832 |
| ISBN-10: | 0307395839 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Sheets, Lawrence Scott |
| Hersteller: | Crown |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 203 x 132 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Lawrence Scott Sheets |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.10.2012 |
| Gewicht: | 0,376 kg |
Lawrence Scott Sheets reported for National Public Radio for seven years and was NPR’s Moscow bureau chief from 2001-2005, covering the entire former USSR. He was Caucasus region bureau chief for Reuters from 1992-2000 and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University from 2000-2001. He also worked for NBC News in Moscow during 1992 and his work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and heard on the BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and other news outlets. Sheets is currently South Caucasus Project Director of the International Crisis Group, focusing on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
Legal Note
Author’s Note
PART I—FAREWELL LENINGRAD, FAREWELL EMPIRE (1989–1991)
A Civil War Outside My Door
Our Communal
Tears of a KGB Man
A Bigamist Bandit and a Button Maker
Sickle and Hammer Down: An Empire’s Last Hours
PART II—GEORGIA: ANARCHY IN PARADISE (1992–1996)
Nobody Started This War
Exodus
Buried Five Times: Insurgents in Flat Black Nylons
A Word About War
PART III—AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA AT WAR (1993–1996)
Azerbaijan: Lifesaving Carpets
Armenia: A Faded Tintype of Mount Ararat
Azerbaijan: The Shish Kebab War and Eastern Democracy
PART IV—CHECHNYA: ECHOES OF THE DEPORTATION (1993–2004)
Grenade, Lightly Tossed
Grozny
Three Libertine Sabotage Women
A Disappearance
Three Boys Seeking Martyrdom
PART V—RESURRECTIONS: THE ABDICATION OF ATHEISM (1998–2005)
A Nameless Bunch of Bones
A KGB Church and Latter-day Saints
PART VI—CENTRAL ASIA: RISE OF THE RED SULTANS (2001–2002)
Uzbekistan: I Cannot Answer That Question
An Afghan Interlude
The Island of Dr. Moreau
PART VII—REVOLUTIONS, REINDEER, AND RADIATION (2003–2011)
The Flaming Recliner
Last Song of the Ultas
Home, Sweet Chernobyl
The Road to the Schoolhouse
PART VIII—AN EMPIRE EPILOGUE
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780307395832 |
| ISBN-10: | 0307395839 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Sheets, Lawrence Scott |
| Hersteller: | Crown |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 203 x 132 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Lawrence Scott Sheets |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.10.2012 |
| Gewicht: | 0,376 kg |
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