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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... once decorated the halls of Soviet power . A Russian friend and I walked , half stupefied , past these creations : The Dance of the Collective Farmers in Armenia ; Portrait of Stalin ; Lenin , Gorky in 1920 ; The Sea of Youth . A few ...
... once decorated the halls of Soviet power . A Russian friend and I walked , half stupefied , past these creations : The Dance of the Collective Farmers in Armenia ; Portrait of Stalin ; Lenin , Gorky in 1920 ; The Sea of Youth . A few ...
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... once been all but forbidden . ( On the other hand , poorer Russians discovered that travel was expensive ; even trips “ abroad ” to Ukraine , Kazakhstan , and the rest of the former republics of the Soviet Union became for them all but ...
... once been all but forbidden . ( On the other hand , poorer Russians discovered that travel was expensive ; even trips “ abroad ” to Ukraine , Kazakhstan , and the rest of the former republics of the Soviet Union became for them all but ...
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... once they sold a million or more copies , in the late 1980s , now they sold no more than eighty thousand or so . Where once the best - seller lists were filled with titles by Solzhenitsyn , Orwell , and Brodsky , they were fast be ...
... once they sold a million or more copies , in the late 1980s , now they sold no more than eighty thousand or so . Where once the best - seller lists were filled with titles by Solzhenitsyn , Orwell , and Brodsky , they were fast be ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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