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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Page 121
... Solzhenitsyn did not sense quite how precari- ous his , and his family's , situation had become . He was not completely naive : on New Year's Day 1974 he had drawn up a list of possible reprisals the regime might take against him , a ...
... Solzhenitsyn did not sense quite how precari- ous his , and his family's , situation had become . He was not completely naive : on New Year's Day 1974 he had drawn up a list of possible reprisals the regime might take against him , a ...
Page 154
... Solzhenitsyn had hired Russian con- tractors to build a house in “ dacha - land , ” on the same site , as it happens , where the fabled military strategist of the Stalin era Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky once lived . The Solzhenitsyns ...
... Solzhenitsyn had hired Russian con- tractors to build a house in “ dacha - land , ” on the same site , as it happens , where the fabled military strategist of the Stalin era Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky once lived . The Solzhenitsyns ...
Page 217
... Solzhenitsyn arrived in Vladivostok at the end of May to begin his jour- ney , the younger writers of Moscow and St. Petersburg were watching the event on television with a measure of interest - but more with be- musement , even disdain ...
... Solzhenitsyn arrived in Vladivostok at the end of May to begin his jour- ney , the younger writers of Moscow and St. Petersburg were watching the event on television with a measure of interest - but more with be- musement , even disdain ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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