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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... head of the republican leaders , Russian president Boris Yeltsin , drank heavily throughout the session , and , with time , his head slumped to the desk . Once in a while , he would raise his head , mutter , " What you say is right ...
... head of the republican leaders , Russian president Boris Yeltsin , drank heavily throughout the session , and , with time , his head slumped to the desk . Once in a while , he would raise his head , mutter , " What you say is right ...
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... head of state would come to Moscow he would be greeted with a red carpet and a real Kremlin reception and so on , but for him — the leader of a place with ten times the population and a great industrial base the reception was a yawn ...
... head of state would come to Moscow he would be greeted with a red carpet and a real Kremlin reception and so on , but for him — the leader of a place with ten times the population and a great industrial base the reception was a yawn ...
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... head of the theater had been bounced for taking bribes , but that Gergiyev was keeping the place alive with a stream of new productions of operas from Tchaikovsky , Rimsky - Korsakov , and Shostakovich . She turned in her seat and ...
... head of the theater had been bounced for taking bribes , but that Gergiyev was keeping the place alive with a stream of new productions of operas from Tchaikovsky , Rimsky - Korsakov , and Shostakovich . She turned in her seat and ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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