Resurrection: The Struggle for a New RussiaResurrection plunges the reader directly into the thick of events so that one all but feels Yeltsin's breath upon one's face - he is drunk one day, in command the next, as volatile as the fragmented country he tries to lead. Remnick's new Russia springs to life through vivid portraits of its players: the half-Jewish anti-Semite Zhirinovsky, "a hater, a crank, a nut"; the young (and purged) economist Yegor Gaidar, champion of "shock therapy" and market reform; Vladimir Gusinsky, Russia's Citizen Kane ("a first-generation capitalist living in a jungle world with few rules or restraints"); Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who returned from a twenty-year exile to find a country freed from communism but still steeped in misery - and nostalgia. These portraits emerge against a background dominated by the war in Chechnya, which Remnick visits in a bloody and unforgettable chapter, and a Moscow in turbulent transition. |
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Page 192
... Korzhakov , was Yeltsin's most intimate friend . In his memoir , Yeltsin credited Korzhakov with absolute loyalty . He even thanked him for sav- ing him from bouts of depression . " Aleksandr Korzhakov , my chief of se- curity , and I ...
... Korzhakov , was Yeltsin's most intimate friend . In his memoir , Yeltsin credited Korzhakov with absolute loyalty . He even thanked him for sav- ing him from bouts of depression . " Aleksandr Korzhakov , my chief of se- curity , and I ...
Page 330
... Korzhakov , but he agreed , in effect , to establish a parallel campaign team , which would work just one floor below Korzhakov's crew in the Presi- dent Hotel . The new team , led by Chubais , promised millions in capital , control of ...
... Korzhakov , but he agreed , in effect , to establish a parallel campaign team , which would work just one floor below Korzhakov's crew in the Presi- dent Hotel . The new team , led by Chubais , promised millions in capital , control of ...
Page 331
... Korzhakov showed me the paper . And we were both shocked ! In his view , this was proof that he had to control the rest of the campaign . Yeltsin , of course , never read this pas- sage , because , Korzhakov claimed , it was cut just in ...
... Korzhakov showed me the paper . And we were both shocked ! In his view , this was proof that he had to control the rest of the campaign . Yeltsin , of course , never read this pas- sage , because , Korzhakov claimed , it was cut just in ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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