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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... things over his knee . I spoke to him about this and said that if it ever seems that we are conducting reforms like ... thing ? Ligachev is always try- ing to push me around . ' Such was Yeltsin . He began to sense that he could use his ...
... things over his knee . I spoke to him about this and said that if it ever seems that we are conducting reforms like ... thing ? Ligachev is always try- ing to push me around . ' Such was Yeltsin . He began to sense that he could use his ...
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... thing , yes , " Gorbachev said . " They really couldn't find another solution , so they went in for this adventurous solu- tion . And it's because of this scheme that we're where we are now . The main thing was the destruction of the ...
... thing , yes , " Gorbachev said . " They really couldn't find another solution , so they went in for this adventurous solu- tion . And it's because of this scheme that we're where we are now . The main thing was the destruction of the ...
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... thing or a bad thing , or whether the Revolution of 1917 was a good thing or a bad thing ; this was a country in which millions of people still celebrated the old Soviet holidays ( May Day , Revolution Day ) and nearly everyone was ...
... thing or a bad thing , or whether the Revolution of 1917 was a good thing or a bad thing ; this was a country in which millions of people still celebrated the old Soviet holidays ( May Day , Revolution Day ) and nearly everyone was ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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