Resurrection: The Struggle for a New RussiaPulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick chronicles the new Russia that emerged from the ash heap of the Soviet Union. From the siege of Parliament to the farcically tilted elections of 1996, from the rubble of Grozny to the grandiose wealth and naked corruption of today's Moscow, Remnick chronicles a society so racked by change that its citizens must daily ask themselves who they are, where they belong, and what they believe in. Remnick composes this panorama out of dozens of finely realized individual portraits. Here is Mikhail Gorbachev, his head still swimming from his plunge from reverence to ridicule. Here is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the half-Jewish anti-Semite who conducts politics as loony performance art. And here is Boris Yeltsin, the tottering populist who is not above stealing elections. In Resurrection, they become the players in a drama so vast and moving that it deserves comparison with the best reportage of George Orwell and Michael Herr. "This is what happens when a good writer unleashes eye and ear on a story that moves with the speed of light. Resurrection has the feel of describing vast, historical change even as it is happening."--Chicago Tribune |
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... Rutskoi was not well known , but those who did know him did not approve . When Rutskoi ran for deputy in 1989 for the Soviet - era Congress of People's Deputies , his campaign manager , Colonel Valery Burkov , answered a question about ...
... Rutskoi was not well known , but those who did know him did not approve . When Rutskoi ran for deputy in 1989 for the Soviet - era Congress of People's Deputies , his campaign manager , Colonel Valery Burkov , answered a question about ...
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... Rutskoi objected gravely to Gaidar's reforms . In another country , a vice president would have been discreet about his opinions ; it did not work that way in Russia . Burbulis and Yeltsin had tried to neutralize Rut- skoi by giving him ...
... Rutskoi objected gravely to Gaidar's reforms . In another country , a vice president would have been discreet about his opinions ; it did not work that way in Russia . Burbulis and Yeltsin had tried to neutralize Rut- skoi by giving him ...
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... Rutskoi was on the phone shouting nonstop obscenities and pleas at the chief justice of the Constitutional Court , Valery Zorkin , who had supported him in September : " I'm asking you , have someone call the embassies ! Have the ...
... Rutskoi was on the phone shouting nonstop obscenities and pleas at the chief justice of the Constitutional Court , Valery Zorkin , who had supported him in September : " I'm asking you , have someone call the embassies ! Have the ...
Contents
The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
Copyright | |
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