Anna Politkovskaya wrote journalism and nonfiction about Russia, Chechnya, war and the political system under Vladimir Putin. A Dirty War reports on the second Chechen war through civilians, soldiers and abuses that official accounts often obscured, while Putin's Russia examines corruption, state institutions, the military and the shrinking space for dissent. Her writing is immediate and reportorial, built from interviews, visits and specific cases rather than detached geopolitical analysis. Politkovskaya's books suit readers of modern Russian politics, war reporting, human-rights journalism and firsthand accounts of the Chechen conflicts. Read more Less