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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... kind of European union or of trying to keep together a former state in a confederative way . As you know , history - making is full of improvisation at the level of the heads of state . One of the issues is that they have a dif- ferent ...
... kind of European union or of trying to keep together a former state in a confederative way . As you know , history - making is full of improvisation at the level of the heads of state . One of the issues is that they have a dif- ferent ...
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... kind of helplessness , a hopelessness . " Asked by a reporter about the possibility of a compromise with Yeltsin , Rutskoi said , " I will not make any sort of compromise ! " September 26 On Red Square , Mstislav Rostropovich and the ...
... kind of helplessness , a hopelessness . " Asked by a reporter about the possibility of a compromise with Yeltsin , Rutskoi said , " I will not make any sort of compromise ! " September 26 On Red Square , Mstislav Rostropovich and the ...
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... kind of propaganda " We Are Marching Toward Leninism , " etc. - television , radio , and the news- papers were now filled with propaganda of a different kind : advertise- ments for unaffordable Western luxuries , fantastic commercials ...
... kind of propaganda " We Are Marching Toward Leninism , " etc. - television , radio , and the news- papers were now filled with propaganda of a different kind : advertise- ments for unaffordable Western luxuries , fantastic commercials ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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