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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... Deputies from regions that de- pended hungrily on industrial subsidies or where collective farm leaders were resisting ... deputy , Nikolai Ryabov , ad- mitted that the speaker of the parliament had ordered local councils to neutralize ...
... Deputies from regions that de- pended hungrily on industrial subsidies or where collective farm leaders were resisting ... deputy , Nikolai Ryabov , ad- mitted that the speaker of the parliament had ordered local councils to neutralize ...
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... deputy announced , with great confidence , that the United States Senate was preparing to arrest Bill Clinton for ... deputies into the Hall of the Soviet of Nationalities . ( Many deputies had already gone home . ) Rutskoi wore his army ...
... deputy announced , with great confidence , that the United States Senate was preparing to arrest Bill Clinton for ... deputies into the Hall of the Soviet of Nationalities . ( Many deputies had already gone home . ) Rutskoi wore his army ...
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... deputy , the businessman Mark Gor- yachev , protested , Zhirinovsky said that when he won the presidency— an event he now counted as inevitable — he would throw him in jail . At which point , Goryachev punched the president ...
... deputy , the businessman Mark Gor- yachev , protested , Zhirinovsky said that when he won the presidency— an event he now counted as inevitable — he would throw him in jail . At which point , Goryachev punched the president ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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