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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... sense of chaos in the Kremlin . “ We had no battle plan , " Yeltsin admitted after- ward . “ Internally , I simply could not accept the possibility that a consti- tutional dispute could lead to shooting people . " If the Kremlin was ...
... sense of chaos in the Kremlin . “ We had no battle plan , " Yeltsin admitted after- ward . “ Internally , I simply could not accept the possibility that a consti- tutional dispute could lead to shooting people . " If the Kremlin was ...
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... sense of the increased visibility and menace of the mafia ; they saw films of the young thugs and their molls in spandex miniskirts strolling through the casinos of Perm or Volgograd ; they saw the photographs of police checking out a ...
... sense of the increased visibility and menace of the mafia ; they saw films of the young thugs and their molls in spandex miniskirts strolling through the casinos of Perm or Volgograd ; they saw the photographs of police checking out a ...
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The Struggle for a New Russia David Remnick. Yeltsin government seemed to sense that with the nationalist and commu- nist opposition on the rise , there would be no political sense in pursuing the prosecution . While some of the plotters ...
The Struggle for a New Russia David Remnick. Yeltsin government seemed to sense that with the nationalist and commu- nist opposition on the rise , there would be no political sense in pursuing the prosecution . While some of the plotters ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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