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The Best of Ogonyok Vitaly Korotich

The Best of Ogonyok By Vitaly Korotich

The Best of Ogonyok by Vitaly Korotich


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Ogonyok is one of the most popular and influential magazines in the Soviet Union. This is a selection of its best contributions in the last two years, on topics such as Moscow gang-warfare, Stalin's war crimes, Chernobyl, Afghanistan and the rehabilitation of leading intellectuals.

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The Best of Ogonyok: The New Journalism of Glasnost by Vitaly Korotich

Founded in 1923, Ogonyok's mixture of bold reportage and challenging of the country's cruel history has recently turned into the most popular and influential magazine in the Soviet Union. This is a selection of the best of Ogonyok during the last two years. From Moscow gang-warfare to bribery and corruption, Stalin's war crimes to the rehabilitation of leading intellectuals, Chernobyl to Afghanistan, the life of ethnic minorities in Armenia and Azerbaijan to the rising suicide rate, shortages in the shops to the drug trade.

Table of Contents

Look about you, Ales Adamovich; ashes in polythene - some melancholy reflections, Vitalii Vitaliev; about sausage, Pyotr Aleshkovsky; on one side, and on the other, Yurii Tyurin; timberworks, Vitalii Eryomin; portrait of a man of self-will, Alla Gerber; monument to a witness, Vitalii Vitaliev; delay, Artak Chibukhyan; letter to the jury of the Miss Charm 1989 contest; the children of the basements, Vitalii Eryomin; conversation with my son, Yurii Paporov; condemned to solitude - a conversation with Alfred Schnittke, Anna Kagarlitskayer; exhibition of achievements, Yurii Belyavsky and Vitalii Vitaliev; must we rehabilitate Marx?, Semyon Gurevich; cotton slave, Alexander Treplyov; the ultimate step, I.Vedeneeva; Afghanistan - the balance-sheet, Artyom Borovik; when there's no choice, Andrei Popov; under siege, Dmitrii Likahnov; patrolling the drug smugglers' path, Konstantin Smirnov; the square of suffering, Zamira Ibrahimova; what price sobriety?, Lev Miroshnichenko; interview with an anti-hero, Dmitrii Gubin; please entrust to my care ..., Oleg Petrenko; the week of conscience, Olga Nemirovskaya; arctic silence?, Yurii Rytkheu; unwanted?, E.Skvortsova; youn don't scare me, psychiatrist!, Nina Chugunova and Vladimir Voevoda; special region, Anatolii Golovkov; the Lokhankin Phenomenon and the Russian intelligentsia, Vyacheslav Kostikov; a haunting spectre, Natalya Ilina; Matryona's crime, Ilya Kartushin and Zamira Ibrahimova.

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GOR003419783
9780434595860
0434595861
The Best of Ogonyok: The New Journalism of Glasnost by Vitaly Korotich
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Paperback
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