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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... Rutskoi was not well known , but those who did know him did not approve . When Rutskoi ran for deputy in 1989 for the Soviet - era Congress of People's Deputies , his campaign manager , Colonel Valery Burkov , answered a question about ...
... Rutskoi was not well known , but those who did know him did not approve . When Rutskoi ran for deputy in 1989 for the Soviet - era Congress of People's Deputies , his campaign manager , Colonel Valery Burkov , answered a question about ...
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... Rutskoi objected gravely to Gaidar's reforms . In another country , a vice president would have been discreet about his opinions ; it did not work that way in Russia . Burbulis and Yeltsin had tried to neutralize Rut- skoi by giving him ...
... Rutskoi objected gravely to Gaidar's reforms . In another country , a vice president would have been discreet about his opinions ; it did not work that way in Russia . Burbulis and Yeltsin had tried to neutralize Rut- skoi by giving him ...
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... Rutskoi and Khasbulatov went back and forth on the crucial issue of negotiations . But now it was becoming clear that Aleksei II , the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church , was preparing to insert himself between the two war- ring ...
... Rutskoi and Khasbulatov went back and forth on the crucial issue of negotiations . But now it was becoming clear that Aleksei II , the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church , was preparing to insert himself between the two war- ring ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
Copyright | |
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