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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... reforms have not been achieved to this day . ” The freeing of the serfs , land reform , the New Economic Pol- icy under Lenin , the Kosygin reforms - all of them were followed by pe- riods of reaction . Yeltsin , under the influence of ...
... reforms have not been achieved to this day . ” The freeing of the serfs , land reform , the New Economic Pol- icy under Lenin , the Kosygin reforms - all of them were followed by pe- riods of reaction . Yeltsin , under the influence of ...
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... reforms . In another country , a vice president would have been discreet about his opinions ; it did not work that ... reform of the economy almost instantly divided the par- liament , and not in Yeltsin's favor . Of the 1,033 members ...
... reforms . In another country , a vice president would have been discreet about his opinions ; it did not work that ... reform of the economy almost instantly divided the par- liament , and not in Yeltsin's favor . Of the 1,033 members ...
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... reform had so far brought only more pain ; Zhirinovsky was able to make the demagogic , but highly effective , point that Yeltsin's reforms had meant that one million people had gotten rich and 150 million people had gotten poorer ...
... reform had so far brought only more pain ; Zhirinovsky was able to make the demagogic , but highly effective , point that Yeltsin's reforms had meant that one million people had gotten rich and 150 million people had gotten poorer ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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