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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Not a single reform in Russia has ever been completed , ” Yeltsin would write . “
The purpose of Peter the Great ' s reforms , for example , was to create ' Russian
Europeans . ' Obviously , that was an extremely ambitious goal that could not be ...
Not a single reform in Russia has ever been completed , ” Yeltsin would write . “
The purpose of Peter the Great ' s reforms , for example , was to create ' Russian
Europeans . ' Obviously , that was an extremely ambitious goal that could not be ...
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Rutskoi objected gravely to Gaidar ' s reforms . In another country , a vice
president would have been discreet about his opinions ; it did not work that way
in Russia . Burbulis and Yeltsin had tried to neutralize Rutskoi by giving him
busywork .
Rutskoi objected gravely to Gaidar ' s reforms . In another country , a vice
president would have been discreet about his opinions ; it did not work that way
in Russia . Burbulis and Yeltsin had tried to neutralize Rutskoi by giving him
busywork .
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For the great majority of people , economic reform had so far brought only more
pain ; Zhirinovsky was able to make the ... that Yeltsin ' s reforms had meant that
one million people had gotten rich and 150 million people had gotten poorer .
For the great majority of people , economic reform had so far brought only more
pain ; Zhirinovsky was able to make the ... that Yeltsin ' s reforms had meant that
one million people had gotten rich and 150 million people had gotten poorer .
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Contents
The Great Dictator | 84 |
Moscow Open City | 158 |
The Banker the President and the Presidents Guard | 184 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia |
| Author | David Remnick |
| Publisher | Random House, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 067942377X, 9780679423775 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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