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Have browsed some this a.m. about links between Orwell and Platonov. I was drawn to comparisons intially becasue they both died so young. Orwell - never fully recovering from the wound suffered in Spain - and Platonov who likely contracted TB from his son who returned critically ill from Siberia. Both appear concerned with language and its misuses. It is interesting, but all of the contemporary blogs that reference the pair are likewise concerned with Hitchens and his obsequious sophistry. You figure?
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Since you are from Chechnya, do you have any of these books that I might borrow to further my knowledge on that country of turmoil?.....Ed
Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society by Valery Tishkov, Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya by Thomas Goltz
The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire by Khassan Baiev, Ruth Daniloff, Nicholas Daniloff
A Small Corner of Hell by Anna Politkovskaya, Georgi M. Derluguian, Alexander Burry, Tatiana Tulchinsky
The Chechen Wars by Matthew Evangelista
Chienne de Guerre by Anne Nivat, Susan Darnton
Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power by Lieven
Chechnya: To The heart of A Conflict.
The first is an excellent source for delineating Russian decline with respect to Central asia at large. It is primarily concerned with the first war only.
The second text is a chapter form a previous book on Russia that is updated to include attack at Beslan.
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