Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics
Murphy's angels comprise all categories of Chechen women -- on whichever side of the violence.
Studying how Russia has changed the way it does its national economic accounting may sound dry, but it is far from so. On the contrary, given the impact that GDP statistics have on politics and policy choices -- sometimes including international politics -- how these are measured and reported has immense practical consequences.
On December 1, 1934, a disaffected, psychotic party worker stalked Sergei Kirov, the first secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party, as he walked the hall to his third-floor office and shot him in the back of the head. From this act flowed an ever-widening cascade of murderous events.
Of all the genres employed to explore the long night of Eastern European communism, fables have not, until now, been one of them.
