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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... told him to use whatever pretense necessary to call off the election . Not that any of this would help Gorbachev . He was despised by the communists , who regarded him as no better than the CIA ; despised by the " great power ...
... told him to use whatever pretense necessary to call off the election . Not that any of this would help Gorbachev . He was despised by the communists , who regarded him as no better than the CIA ; despised by the " great power ...
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... told the president at a meeting of writers that he really ought to become a strongman , a Russian version of Chile's Augusto Pinochet . " Many peo- ple in Russia think they admire Pinochet , but they have no idea why , ” Leonid ...
... told the president at a meeting of writers that he really ought to become a strongman , a Russian version of Chile's Augusto Pinochet . " Many peo- ple in Russia think they admire Pinochet , but they have no idea why , ” Leonid ...
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... told Yeltsin he was against the plan , a senior diplomat told me , " but in a shrugging sort of way . ” Chubais made the same point , though more vigorously . The truly decisive meet- ing , however , was with the minister of internal ...
... told Yeltsin he was against the plan , a senior diplomat told me , " but in a shrugging sort of way . ” Chubais made the same point , though more vigorously . The truly decisive meet- ing , however , was with the minister of internal ...
Contents
The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
Copyright | |
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