Lawrence Scott Sheets: Eight Pieces of Empire

Cover: 9780307395832 | Eight Pieces of Empire | A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

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Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new countries began to shed totalitarianism while other sought to revive their own dead empires or were led by ex-Soviet leaders who built equally or even more repressive political machines. Since the late 1980s, Sheets lived and reported from the former USSR and saw firsthand the reverberations of the empire's collapse. Eight Pieces of Empire draws readers into the people, politics and day-to-day life, painting a vivid portrait of a tumultuous time.

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents for Eight Pieces of Empire (Broadway Paperbacks)

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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