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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... already starting to splinter . In American terms , Yeltsin needed some regional and ideological balance for his ticket . Yeltsin chose Aleksandr Rutskoi , a prominent officer in the war in Afghanistan , who had been the leader of ...
... already starting to splinter . In American terms , Yeltsin needed some regional and ideological balance for his ticket . Yeltsin chose Aleksandr Rutskoi , a prominent officer in the war in Afghanistan , who had been the leader of ...
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... already overloaded ; in fact , news reports said , it was loaded with furniture he had bought for his own use . Sagalayev and I were having a fine time gossiping about Rybkin and his furniture . He had already received a string of calls ...
... already overloaded ; in fact , news reports said , it was loaded with furniture he had bought for his own use . Sagalayev and I were having a fine time gossiping about Rybkin and his furniture . He had already received a string of calls ...
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... for short - term analysis . " I see no reason that Russia cannot make a break with its absolutist past much in the way that Germany and Japan did after the war . Since the late 1980s , Russia has already gone a 362 EPILOGUE.
... for short - term analysis . " I see no reason that Russia cannot make a break with its absolutist past much in the way that Germany and Japan did after the war . Since the late 1980s , Russia has already gone a 362 EPILOGUE.
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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