![]() ![]() ![]() In The Ukrainian Notebooks, Igort reaches further back in history and illustrates the events of the 1932 Holodomor. ![]() Igort follows in her tracks, detailing Anna’s assassination and the stories of abuse, murder, abduction, and torture that Russia was so desperate to censor. For her work, she was detained, poisoned, and ultimately murdered. Anna spoke out frequently against the Second Chechen War, criticizing Vladimir Putin. In The Russian Notebooks, Igort investigates the murder of award-winning journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkoyskaya. Now he brings those stories to new life with in-depth reporting and deep compassion. Afterspending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort was compelled to illuminate two shadowy moments in recent history: the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist. Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule. ![]()
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