European Union Journalism
Posted in EU Info on 10/06/2010 11:23 pm by admin
Journalism and human rights
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The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist’s Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan $4.25 Borovik, foreign editor of the Soviet weekly Ogonyok , spent a month with Soviet troops in Afghanistan near the end of the 1979-1988 war. His subjective, impressionistic account is of interest mainly for its startling echoes of the American experience in Vietnam: The Soviet soldiers’ awed respect for the elusive enemy, their disgust over the waste of lives, their resentment of the harassment accor… |
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Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya $5.97 In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors against a powerful and much more numerous army. Jagielski’s narrative is told through the lens of two men: Shamil Basaev, a hero to some, a dangerous warlord to others; and Aslan Maskhadov, a calculating an… |
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From The Polish Underground: Selections from Krytyka, 1978-1993 $33.95 Since it first appeared in 1978, the Polish quarterly Krytyka (Critique) has been a showcase for some of the best writing on politics, sociology, cultural criticism, economics, and history from Poland. Founded by a group of oppositional activists that included Adam Michnik and Jacek Kuron, the journal began as an underground outlet for critical political thinking in the period prior to Solidarity… |