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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... told him to use whatever pretense necessary to call off the election . Not that any of this would help Gorbachev . He was despised by the communists , who regarded him as no better than the CIA ; despised by the " great power ...
... told him to use whatever pretense necessary to call off the election . Not that any of this would help Gorbachev . He was despised by the communists , who regarded him as no better than the CIA ; despised by the " great power ...
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... told the president at a meeting of writers that he really ought to become a strongman , a Russian version of Chile's Augusto Pinochet . " Many peo- ple in Russia think they admire Pinochet , but they have no idea why , " Leonid ...
... told the president at a meeting of writers that he really ought to become a strongman , a Russian version of Chile's Augusto Pinochet . " Many peo- ple in Russia think they admire Pinochet , but they have no idea why , " Leonid ...
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... told an interviewer that Muslims must pray three times a day . When he was told that , no , actually it's five times a day , he replied , " Oh , well , the more the merrier . " The political story of the Chechen disaster began with the ...
... told an interviewer that Muslims must pray three times a day . When he was told that , no , actually it's five times a day , he replied , " Oh , well , the more the merrier . " The political story of the Chechen disaster began with the ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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