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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... reporters could get in and out of the White House fairly easily , and , once inside , they could meet with Khas- bulatov and Rutskoi . At first , both men were sure not only of victory but of support . Their first defeat was the ...
... reporters could get in and out of the White House fairly easily , and , once inside , they could meet with Khas- bulatov and Rutskoi . At first , both men were sure not only of victory but of support . Their first defeat was the ...
Page 64
... reporters he met with like a man over the line . Khasbu- latov announced that the White House would be stormed on the night of the 28th . Without doubt . The KGB's Alpha troops , who had refused to storm the White House in 1991 , were ...
... reporters he met with like a man over the line . Khasbu- latov announced that the White House would be stormed on the night of the 28th . Without doubt . The KGB's Alpha troops , who had refused to storm the White House in 1991 , were ...
Page 257
... reporters and staffers absorbed the news not only as a personal loss , but as an assault . “ Who is next ? " said Lena Sarkisan , a reporter . " We are living in a country of ter- ror . " Although the police had no suspects and to this ...
... reporters and staffers absorbed the news not only as a personal loss , but as an assault . “ Who is next ? " said Lena Sarkisan , a reporter . " We are living in a country of ter- ror . " Although the police had no suspects and to this ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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