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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... interest in Solzhenitsyn was still high when Farrar , Straus & Giroux pub- lished August 1914 in 1972 , it sold well . " We were right behind Jonathan Livingston Seagull on the Times best - seller list , " said Roger Straus , the pub ...
... interest in Solzhenitsyn was still high when Farrar , Straus & Giroux pub- lished August 1914 in 1972 , it sold well . " We were right behind Jonathan Livingston Seagull on the Times best - seller list , " said Roger Straus , the pub ...
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... interest in the media by backing the newspaper Sevodnya and the radio station Ekho Moskvi . They met at MOST's ... interests : government THE BLACK BOX | 243.
... interest in the media by backing the newspaper Sevodnya and the radio station Ekho Moskvi . They met at MOST's ... interests : government THE BLACK BOX | 243.
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... interest , made too much of its notion of human rights . " In our time , we had three hundred or so dissidents , and there was endless noise about them everywhere , ” he writes . “ But today there are six million refugees in Russia ...
... interest , made too much of its notion of human rights . " In our time , we had three hundred or so dissidents , and there was endless noise about them everywhere , ” he writes . “ But today there are six million refugees in Russia ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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