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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... Lebed despised Grachev . The price of his participation in the Yeltsin government was his rival's head . Just hours after Lebed was appointed , he went on television and de- clared that he had uncovered and quashed a potential putsch ...
... Lebed despised Grachev . The price of his participation in the Yeltsin government was his rival's head . Just hours after Lebed was appointed , he went on television and de- clared that he had uncovered and quashed a potential putsch ...
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... Lebed said he actually preferred de Gaulle as a role model . In 1995 , Lebed ended his war with the Kremlin and retired from ac- tive duty . He ran for parliament in December 1995 as the cochairman of a small party called the Congress ...
... Lebed said he actually preferred de Gaulle as a role model . In 1995 , Lebed ended his war with the Kremlin and retired from ac- tive duty . He ran for parliament in December 1995 as the cochairman of a small party called the Congress ...
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... Lebed , and communist leader Gennady Zyuganov . Lebed's popularity is the highest of the four , but who he is , what sort of president he would be , is unknown . Lebed is considered " flexible ” and “ ed- ucable " by many Western ...
... Lebed , and communist leader Gennady Zyuganov . Lebed's popularity is the highest of the four , but who he is , what sort of president he would be , is unknown . Lebed is considered " flexible ” and “ ed- ucable " by many Western ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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