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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... believe that someone close to him , not even Yeltsin , would raise a hand against him . Here he was , surrounded by hatred , and he remained completely alone . Even while the so - called democrats were criticizing him and insulting him ...
... believe that someone close to him , not even Yeltsin , would raise a hand against him . Here he was , surrounded by hatred , and he remained completely alone . Even while the so - called democrats were criticizing him and insulting him ...
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... believe any of this wealth would trickle down to them , and they were ready to believe any charge , any rumor . The poor were not alone in this . The sense of visceral alarm in Moscow about the rise of the new rich spread across the ...
... believe any of this wealth would trickle down to them , and they were ready to believe any charge , any rumor . The poor were not alone in this . The sense of visceral alarm in Moscow about the rise of the new rich spread across the ...
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... believe that its duty to demo- cratic practice ended with the 1996 elections . The Russian people , un- derstandably , believe the government has much to answer for . The poverty rate soars ; life expectancy for men plunges . The murder ...
... believe that its duty to demo- cratic practice ended with the 1996 elections . The Russian people , un- derstandably , believe the government has much to answer for . The poverty rate soars ; life expectancy for men plunges . The murder ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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