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PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION:
Chechnya Diary is a story about ‘the story’ of the war in Chechnya, the ‘rogue republic’ that attempted to secede from the Russian Federation at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Specifically, it is the story of the Samashki Massacre, a symbol of the Russian brutality that was employed to crush Chechen resistance...(I)n addition to providing a tour through the convoluted Soviet and then post-Soviet nationalities policy that led to the bloodbath in Chechnya, Chechnya Diary is part of a larger exploration of the role (and impact) of the media in conflict areas.
BLURBS AND PRAISE:
“This rusty razor blade of a book is a deeply disturbing and uniquely personal contribution to the study of the tragic subject of Chechnya at war, ethnic and national conflict in the post-Soviet Caucasus, as well as the workings of the modern American media. Goltz has done it again.” – Dr. Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia/Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, DC
REVIEWS:
“If (these) other reporters were working the edge, (Goltz) was over the edge,” from ‘The Endless Assignment: nine perspectives from the edge of hell,’
Jonathan Z. Larson in Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2004. Click link to whole article
“…the image of the tortured war correspondent, mind torn with nightmares, has acquired a sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome chic that is unlikely to deter would-be journalists from going into this unforgiving arena and returning with the harrowing footage or unflinching personal accounts that will make their careers. They may not like what they become in the process, but after reading Goltz's vivid book they cannot say that they weren't warned,” from ‘Witnesses to the unthinkable,’
by Jonathan Kaplan, in L A Times, May 2, 2004. Abstract available through this hot-link
”…Goltz doesn't hide behind media platitudes about getting out the truth. And his rollicking book Chechnya Diary is not really history…(he) comes looking for what the TV trade calls "bang-bang," but what he finds are human beings,” from ‘Humans behind the havoc,’
by Erik Schechter in the Jerusalem Post, Aug. 5, 2004. Abstract is available through this hot-link
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SAMPLE CHAPTER: PROLOGUE OF CHECHNYA DIARY
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SLIDE-SHOW OF PICTURES RELATED TO CHECHNYA DIARY
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Thomas C.Goltz 
