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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Page 27
... took it all very calmly . They took him to the next room to let him sleep . Yeltsin's chair stayed empty . Finally , Kravchuk took his chair and assumed the responsibility of chair- man . When Kravchuk finished his short speech to ...
... took it all very calmly . They took him to the next room to let him sleep . Yeltsin's chair stayed empty . Finally , Kravchuk took his chair and assumed the responsibility of chair- man . When Kravchuk finished his short speech to ...
Page 170
... took decades to design and build - it was not consecrated until 1883 - but when it was finally com- pleted it was , if not the most beautiful of churches , certainly the most grandiose . There were five gold domes , the highest of which ...
... took decades to design and build - it was not consecrated until 1883 - but when it was finally com- pleted it was , if not the most beautiful of churches , certainly the most grandiose . There were five gold domes , the highest of which ...
Page 327
... took away a great deal from me . It took my par- ents from me . But I also got an education . I built a house . I started a fam- ily . ' So I can't judge Stalin too strictly . These were difficult times , and it was tough to distinguish ...
... took away a great deal from me . It took my par- ents from me . But I also got an education . I built a house . I started a fam- ily . ' So I can't judge Stalin too strictly . These were difficult times , and it was tough to distinguish ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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