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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... leading the charge , the White House forces took two military trucks in their possession and drove them through the glass front of the mayor's offices . The few soldiers and police who were still there threw down their weapons and ran ...
... leading the charge , the White House forces took two military trucks in their possession and drove them through the glass front of the mayor's offices . The few soldiers and police who were still there threw down their weapons and ran ...
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... leading advocate for a free press within the Gorbachev inner cir- cle , told me , “ You just cannot compare our situation with that in Amer- ica , where there is stability . Pravda cannot be considered merely an opposition paper when it ...
... leading advocate for a free press within the Gorbachev inner cir- cle , told me , “ You just cannot compare our situation with that in Amer- ica , where there is stability . Pravda cannot be considered merely an opposition paper when it ...
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... leading members of the government . Yeltsin , however , was so drunk- " incapacitated , " his press people said that he was unable to carry off this bit of simple diplomacy . The Irish waited on the tarmac . No Yeltsin . The incident ...
... leading members of the government . Yeltsin , however , was so drunk- " incapacitated , " his press people said that he was unable to carry off this bit of simple diplomacy . The Irish waited on the tarmac . No Yeltsin . The incident ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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