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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... According to Yeltsin , Barannikov wanted him to come to a state dacha not for urgent business but rather to meet an émigré busi- nessman named Boris Birshtein , who ran a company called Seabeaco in Switzerland . Barannikov went on about ...
... According to Yeltsin , Barannikov wanted him to come to a state dacha not for urgent business but rather to meet an émigré busi- nessman named Boris Birshtein , who ran a company called Seabeaco in Switzerland . Barannikov went on about ...
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... according to Kazakh rec- ords , Zhirinovsky did not change his name from Edelshtein to Zhiri- novsky until 1964 , when he was eighteen . Later in life , as a public figure , he would answer questions about his parents this way : " My ...
... according to Kazakh rec- ords , Zhirinovsky did not change his name from Edelshtein to Zhiri- novsky until 1964 , when he was eighteen . Later in life , as a public figure , he would answer questions about his parents this way : " My ...
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... risen an oligarchic system in which politics were played out according to the economic interests of bureaucrats , entrepreneurs , and mafiosi . The late Len Karpinsky , a columnist THE BANKER , THE PRESIDENT .. | 201.
... risen an oligarchic system in which politics were played out according to the economic interests of bureaucrats , entrepreneurs , and mafiosi . The late Len Karpinsky , a columnist THE BANKER , THE PRESIDENT .. | 201.
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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