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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... leave his bunker , just make sure to send the foreign ambassadors he would not leave the building without them . No matter how inflated Rutskoi's casualty count may have been , the grounds of the White House were strewn with dead bodies ...
... leave his bunker , just make sure to send the foreign ambassadors he would not leave the building without them . No matter how inflated Rutskoi's casualty count may have been , the grounds of the White House were strewn with dead bodies ...
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... leave the political scene , because the art of government consists in the mastery of compromise and coop- eration . Victory for one side is a defeat for democracy , and victory at the cost of so much bloodshed is a crime . . . . The ...
... leave the political scene , because the art of government consists in the mastery of compromise and coop- eration . Victory for one side is a defeat for democracy , and victory at the cost of so much bloodshed is a crime . . . . The ...
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... leave him alone . I maintain that we must take legal action and bring the full force of Soviet law against him . ” At this there is a full - throated chorus of “ Da ! " Andropov fuels the already evident anger of the other members with ...
... leave him alone . I maintain that we must take legal action and bring the full force of Soviet law against him . ” At this there is a full - throated chorus of “ Da ! " Andropov fuels the already evident anger of the other members with ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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