Tony Wood

Tony Wood teaches history at the Univers­ity of Colorado Boulder. Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War was published by Verso in 2018.

Letter

Traitor Nationalities

2 December 2021

Sheila Fitzpatrick refers to the wholesale deportation of various national minorities in the USSR, beginning in the 1930s, and notes that ‘the practice continued after the war with the deportation and resettlement of “traitor” nationalities – Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars and others’ (LRB, 2 December 2021). But these deportations took place during the war, not after it: late 1943 for the...
Letter

Crisis in Venezuela

21 February 2019

I’m not surprised Malcolm Deas disagrees with my assessment of the situation in Venezuela (Letters, 7 March). But I do take issue with his suggestion that I attempted to ‘disguise’ the nature of the crisis there. I simply described the actual character and positions of the Venezuelan opposition, and highlighted the less than pure motives of the external actors who have involved themselves in...
Letter
Gilberto Perez is mistaken in thinking that Tarkovsky spelled ‘Nostalghia’ with an ‘h’ in order to gesture to the specifically Russian character of the emotion (LRB, 26 February). First, there is no ‘h’ in the Cyrillic alphabet; it’s there because he wanted to spell it the Italian way, to reflect the fact that he made the film in Italy. Second, the Russian word nostal’giia is perfectly...
Letter

Colonial War

6 July 2006

Anna Neistat powerfully evokes the realities of life in Chechnya, and the systemic brutality of Ramzan Kadyrov’s rule (LRB, 6 July). The ongoing catastrophe of the war there has vanished from the world’s consciences and TV screens, so the publication of such reports is to be welcomed, especially as Putin’s neo-authoritarian turn has made them increasingly rare. She also makes some important points...

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