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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... hundred yards away from the White House . September 29 Yeltsin convened his Security Council once more . It was clear to all that the tactics they had used until now cutting off the lights and heat , the barrage of disinformation — was ...
... hundred yards away from the White House . September 29 Yeltsin convened his Security Council once more . It was clear to all that the tactics they had used until now cutting off the lights and heat , the barrage of disinformation — was ...
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... hundred thousand dol- lars for our lives from their employers ? Because they risk practically nothing : they shoot ... hundreds of thousands of dollars for a contract killer . " One afternoon , I went to see Aleksandr Yakovlev , the ...
... hundred thousand dol- lars for our lives from their employers ? Because they risk practically nothing : they shoot ... hundreds of thousands of dollars for a contract killer . " One afternoon , I went to see Aleksandr Yakovlev , the ...
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... hundred to eight hundred people . It's a sign of the times . Either you pay the gangsters or you defend yourself . " Gusinsky talked for a while about his media properties and the dis- tance he keeps from them . In fact , he appeared ...
... hundred to eight hundred people . It's a sign of the times . Either you pay the gangsters or you defend yourself . " Gusinsky talked for a while about his media properties and the dis- tance he keeps from them . In fact , he appeared ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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