Andzhei Belovranin, Chernaia Kniga [Black Book]

This book, edited by Andzhei Belovranin, is the result of a collaboration between the Saint Petersburg Organisation of Soldiers’ Mothers and the independent newspaper Novaia Gazeta. It is based on the documented presentation of concrete cases of violence in the Russian army, but over and beyond precise facts, proposes more general considerations concerning overall rationales of violence in the state’s armed forces. In the introduction, the author considers the nature of the changes that have...