Anna Reid

Reid read law at Oxford University and studied Russian History at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. After working as a consultant and business journalist, she moved to Kyiv, where she was the Ukraine correspondent for the Economist from 1993 to 1995. From 2003 to 2007 she worked for the British think-tank Policy Exchange, editing several of their publications{{cite book | title=Lion Cubs? Lessons from Africa's Success Stories | publisher=Policy Exchange | author=Reid, Anna | year=2004 | isbn=0-9545611-4-7}}{{cite book | title=Size Isn't Everything: Restructuring Policing in England and Wales | publisher=Policy Exchange | author=Loveday, Barry and Anna Reid | year=2006 | isbn=0-9551909-2-4}}{{cite book | title=Taming Terrorism, It's Been Done Before | publisher=Policy Exchange | author=Reid, Anna | year=2004 | isbn=0-9547527-5-9}} and running the foreign affairs programme.{{cite web | url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/Anna-Reid/authors/3323 | title=Bloomsbury Publishing Author Biography: Anna Reid | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | year=2011 | access-date=September 10, 2011 | archive-date=10 May 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510124843/http://www.bloomsbury.com/Anna-Reid/authors/3323 | url-status=dead }}

Reid has published three books on East European history: Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine, The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia, and Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II: 1941-1944. Critics have praised her for her highly descriptive narratives of the locations she studies.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/books/how-the-east-was-won.html | title=How the East Was Won | work=The New York Times | date=December 15, 2002 | access-date=September 10, 2011 | author=Bobrick, Benson}} She has received especially high praise for Leningrad, which is the first 21st century book-length account of the Siege of Leningrad (modern-day Saint Petersburg) by the Germans from 1941 to 1944.{{cite web | url=http://www.economist.com/node/21526778 | title=The siege of Leningrad: 900 days of solitude | publisher=The Economist Newspaper Ltd | date=August 27, 2011 | access-date=September 10, 2011}} In its use of newly discovered primary sources from the Siege, including private diaries of ordinary citizens who suffered from cold and starvation during the winter of 1941-1942, the book has been called "a relentless chronicle of suffering."{{cite web | url=http://www.salon.com/books/2011/09/08/leningrad_anna_reid | title=The untold tragedies of Leningrad | publisher=Salon Media Group | date=September 8, 2011 | access-date=September 10, 2011 | author=O'Donnell, Michael}}

Her most recent book, A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention into the Russian Civil War, chronicling the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, was published in 2023.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/07/a-nasty-little-war-anna-reid-review-the-west-chaotic-campaign-to-undo-the-russian-revolution The Guardian, "A Nasty Little War review – the west’s chaotic campaign to undo the Russian Revolution"], 7 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

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• {{cite book | year=2003|title=The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=0-8027-7676-0}}
• {{cite book | year=2011|title=Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II: 1941-1944|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-0-8027-1594-4}} {{Cite news |last=Thomson |first=Ian |date=2011-09-24 |title=Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege 1941-44 by Anna Reid – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/25/leningrad-city-under-siege-review |access-date=2024-10-30 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}
• {{cite book | year=2015|title=Borderland: a Journey Through the History of Ukraine|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0465055890}}
• A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention into the Russian Civil War. Basic Books. 2024. {{Cite web |last=Donoghue |first=Steve |date=2024-02-12 |title=A Nasty Little War by Anna Reid |url=https://openlettersreview.com/posts/a-nasty-little-war-by-anna-reid-1 |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Open Letters Review |language=en-US}}{{cite web |title=when the west tried to overturn the Russian revolution |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ed277ced-1ca7-41fa-b779-6356f9712a67 |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Financial Times}}{{Cite news |last=Harding |first=Luke |date=2023-11-07 |title=A Nasty Little War review – the west’s chaotic campaign to undo the Russian Revolution |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/07/a-nasty-little-war-anna-reid-review-the-west-chaotic-campaign-to-undo-the-russian-revolution |access-date=2024-10-30 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}

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