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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... never known anything except Komsomol politics and Party politics . In me , you are talking to a man who worked as a lathe operator at a factory in 1943 . The metallic dust has come out of my pores only in these last ten years ...
... never known anything except Komsomol politics and Party politics . In me , you are talking to a man who worked as a lathe operator at a factory in 1943 . The metallic dust has come out of my pores only in these last ten years ...
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... never even thought about such people , ” he said . " It was impossible to plan for such a thing . I never even thought business- men , as you understand them , would develop in this country . I had high expectations for cooperatives ...
... never even thought about such people , ” he said . " It was impossible to plan for such a thing . I never even thought business- men , as you understand them , would develop in this country . I had high expectations for cooperatives ...
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... never felt that extra charge on our skin , the thrill of the forbidden . " Terekhov grew up in the Tula region , three hours south of Moscow . His hometown was called Stalinogorsk and then the name was changed to Novomoskovsk . " I am a ...
... never felt that extra charge on our skin , the thrill of the forbidden . " Terekhov grew up in the Tula region , three hours south of Moscow . His hometown was called Stalinogorsk and then the name was changed to Novomoskovsk . " I am a ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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