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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... meeting in Belarus was that while you couldn't take Gorbachev out of the country , you could take the country away from Gorbachev , " the journalist Sergei Parkhomenko said . At the start of the meeting , Yeltsin asked Shushkevich if ...
... meeting in Belarus was that while you couldn't take Gorbachev out of the country , you could take the country away from Gorbachev , " the journalist Sergei Parkhomenko said . At the start of the meeting , Yeltsin asked Shushkevich if ...
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... meeting and sitting next to the president . “ I got tired of seeing the same face in my office , in meetings , at receptions , in my home , at my dacha , on the tennis court , in the sauna . . . . He overstepped some boundary in our ...
... meeting and sitting next to the president . “ I got tired of seeing the same face in my office , in meetings , at receptions , in my home , at my dacha , on the tennis court , in the sauna . . . . He overstepped some boundary in our ...
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... meeting , ” said Igor Malashenko , the former Party bureaucrat who had become Yeltsin's chief image - maker . " When we did have these meetings , there was always criti- cism of the mass media , that the media were doing a lot of ...
... meeting , ” said Igor Malashenko , the former Party bureaucrat who had become Yeltsin's chief image - maker . " When we did have these meetings , there was always criti- cism of the mass media , that the media were doing a lot of ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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