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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... vote . He had said all along that without Ukraine , there could be no union of any kind . Around the time of the ill - fated meeting with Gorbachev , Yeltsin asked Starovoitova how she thought the vote would go in Ukraine . Starovoitova ...
... vote . He had said all along that without Ukraine , there could be no union of any kind . Around the time of the ill - fated meeting with Gorbachev , Yeltsin asked Starovoitova how she thought the vote would go in Ukraine . Starovoitova ...
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... voted over- whelmingly for independence . Almost no one had confidence in Moscow or the old union structures any longer . For Yeltsin , the vote clarified everything . There could be no more double game . One day after the vote ...
... voted over- whelmingly for independence . Almost no one had confidence in Moscow or the old union structures any longer . For Yeltsin , the vote clarified everything . There could be no more double game . One day after the vote ...
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... vote . They vote for him more with the mind than with the heart , if they vote for him at all . His main negative is the suffering the whole society has had to endure under trans- formation . If he wins , it will be one of the rare ...
... vote . They vote for him more with the mind than with the heart , if they vote for him at all . His main negative is the suffering the whole society has had to endure under trans- formation . If he wins , it will be one of the rare ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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