The Best of "Ogonyok": The New Journalism of Glasnost

by Cathy Porter (Editor), Cathy Porter (Editor), C. Porter (Translator), Vitaly Korotich (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.25

  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.