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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Page 54
... less equal ; and far worse and less explainable was that the new system would bring with it a wave of corruption far worse than anything seen under the communist regime . No one doubted that the old Communist Party , with its absolute ...
... less equal ; and far worse and less explainable was that the new system would bring with it a wave of corruption far worse than anything seen under the communist regime . No one doubted that the old Communist Party , with its absolute ...
Page 92
... Less ob- vious , especially to foreigners , was the Russians ' anxiety about their place in the world . The jewels of the empire were lost : the beaches of the Crimea , the vineyards of Moldova , the oil fields of Kazakhstan , the port ...
... Less ob- vious , especially to foreigners , was the Russians ' anxiety about their place in the world . The jewels of the empire were lost : the beaches of the Crimea , the vineyards of Moldova , the oil fields of Kazakhstan , the port ...
Page 173
... less pretentious , no less interested in self - aggrandizement , than the old ones . There is something unseemly about the spectacle of lifelong apparatchiks like Yeltsin and Luzhkov , once so faithful to the Leninist faith , now acting ...
... less pretentious , no less interested in self - aggrandizement , than the old ones . There is something unseemly about the spectacle of lifelong apparatchiks like Yeltsin and Luzhkov , once so faithful to the Leninist faith , now acting ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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