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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... past a beggar . The sym- bols of transformation are stark and banal and true . But the transformation of Russia is not merely a matter of its outward signs its relics and innovations . The process roils in the mind and heart of every ...
... past a beggar . The sym- bols of transformation are stark and banal and true . But the transformation of Russia is not merely a matter of its outward signs its relics and innovations . The process roils in the mind and heart of every ...
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... past a graveyard , past the trailers and the rotting tractors and the handsome vacation houses , to the fence around Solzhenitsyn's property , his mythic barrier against the world . In Russia , and even in the West , the legend was that ...
... past a graveyard , past the trailers and the rotting tractors and the handsome vacation houses , to the fence around Solzhenitsyn's property , his mythic barrier against the world . In Russia , and even in the West , the legend was that ...
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... past . Similarly , the mayor of Moscow , Yuri Luzhkov , has restored and rebuilt dozens of churches and monuments destroyed dur- ing the Soviet period , not least the enormous Cathedral of Christ the Sav- ior on the banks of the Moscow ...
... past . Similarly , the mayor of Moscow , Yuri Luzhkov , has restored and rebuilt dozens of churches and monuments destroyed dur- ing the Soviet period , not least the enormous Cathedral of Christ the Sav- ior on the banks of the Moscow ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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