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 98
... nationalist voters , passages like that one had an at- tractive resonance , even if they seemed like bigotry to non - Russians . In the most vulgar way , Zhirinovsky played to the Russian sense of betrayal , the sense that the Russians ...
... nationalist voters , passages like that one had an at- tractive resonance , even if they seemed like bigotry to non - Russians . In the most vulgar way , Zhirinovsky played to the Russian sense of betrayal , the sense that the Russians ...
Page 313
... nationalist mode , we no longer heard much about Lenin . Rather he quoted Toynbee and Spengler , and nine- teenth ... nationalists , Russia was a special case , a " special world , " a " special type of civilization " based on ...
... nationalist mode , we no longer heard much about Lenin . Rather he quoted Toynbee and Spengler , and nine- teenth ... nationalists , Russia was a special case , a " special world , " a " special type of civilization " based on ...
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... nationalism . The idea of Russia's " separate path " of development is increasingly a losing proposition for ... nationalist resentment , has felt it necessary to apologize after making various racist comments . He will not win ...
... nationalism . The idea of Russia's " separate path " of development is increasingly a losing proposition for ... nationalist resentment , has felt it necessary to apologize after making various racist comments . He will not win ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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