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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Page 110
No visitor to the Soviet Union can have failed to remark something of this
phenomenon : a combination of intellectual inadequacy and emotional
superiority , a sense of the west as admirably self - restrained , clever , efficient ,
and successful ...
No visitor to the Soviet Union can have failed to remark something of this
phenomenon : a combination of intellectual inadequacy and emotional
superiority , a sense of the west as admirably self - restrained , clever , efficient ,
and successful ...
Page 300
The essential national drama is the search for identity , and in this we , the liberal
intellectuals , have failed , ” a prominent literary historian , Andrei Zorin , told me .
“ There is no ... It should be an exciting intellectual adventure to start a country .
The essential national drama is the search for identity , and in this we , the liberal
intellectuals , have failed , ” a prominent literary historian , Andrei Zorin , told me .
“ There is no ... It should be an exciting intellectual adventure to start a country .
Page 360
When one begins to tally up the millions of men and women , the best and the
brightest of their day , who were killed or forced out of the country , then one
begins to calculate how much moral and intellectual capacity we lost , ” Razgon
told me ...
When one begins to tally up the millions of men and women , the best and the
brightest of their day , who were killed or forced out of the country , then one
begins to calculate how much moral and intellectual capacity we lost , ” Razgon
told me ...
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RESURRECTION: The Struggle for a New Russia
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictIn this follow-up to Lenin's Tomb (LJ 6/15/93), which focused on the collapse of the USSR, Remnick concentrates on the post-Soviet scene and its prospects. We meet a rich variety of personalities ... Read full review
Contents
The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia Vintage books |
| Author | David Remnick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1998 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 1 Nov 2010 |
| ISBN | 0375750231, 9780375750236 |
| Length | 412 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Political Science / General Political Science / Law Enforcement |
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