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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... White House . The police parked a yel- low armored car outside the building to play booming music and pro- government propaganda at top volume day and night ; the car soon became known as the Yellow Goebbels . But while Yeltsin and his ...
... White House . The police parked a yel- low armored car outside the building to play booming music and pro- government propaganda at top volume day and night ; the car soon became known as the Yellow Goebbels . But while Yeltsin and his ...
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... White House . " That depends on how much the president drinks , " he said . September 27-28 As time went by , the atmosphere in the White House became more and more charged with a sense of impending martyrdom . By now , Khas- bulatov ...
... White House . " That depends on how much the president drinks , " he said . September 27-28 As time went by , the atmosphere in the White House became more and more charged with a sense of impending martyrdom . By now , Khas- bulatov ...
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... White House forces : even 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 ...
... White House forces : even 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 ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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