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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Language was a foundation of the old regime . The old Communist Party
controlled language absolutely ( banning writers , creating the Newspeak of
official doctrine and media ) and , like God almighty , gave everything its name .
Brezhnev's ...
Language was a foundation of the old regime . The old Communist Party
controlled language absolutely ( banning writers , creating the Newspeak of
official doctrine and media ) and , like God almighty , gave everything its name .
Brezhnev's ...
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But far from all : many people , especially older people , were eager to gaze on
the relics of the old regime , the pitifully rendered artifacts that had once
decorated the halls of Soviet power . A Russian friend and I walked , half
stupefied , past ...
But far from all : many people , especially older people , were eager to gaze on
the relics of the old regime , the pitifully rendered artifacts that had once
decorated the halls of Soviet power . A Russian friend and I walked , half
stupefied , past ...
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ined ) of the Yeltsin regime and a firm belief in the verities of the past . The new
communist parties , led by former apparatchiks at all levels , formulated a
conspiratorial version of recent history that had wide currency among the
opposition ...
ined ) of the Yeltsin regime and a firm belief in the verities of the past . The new
communist parties , led by former apparatchiks at all levels , formulated a
conspiratorial version of recent history that had wide currency among the
opposition ...
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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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