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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... became theirs . And sitting next to Gorbachev was Yakovlev , who had spent twelve years in Canada as ambassador , where he became a rabid anticommunist . I have known Gor- bachev for forty years and Yakovlev for thirty . I know these ...
... became theirs . And sitting next to Gorbachev was Yakovlev , who had spent twelve years in Canada as ambassador , where he became a rabid anticommunist . I have known Gor- bachev for forty years and Yakovlev for thirty . I know these ...
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... became a writer , Yuri Vlasov , denounced " the under- ground empire " of the KGB . It was a moment in which words could not have had greater meaning . But the moment passed . Politics after 1991 was less about ideas than interests ...
... became a writer , Yuri Vlasov , denounced " the under- ground empire " of the KGB . It was a moment in which words could not have had greater meaning . But the moment passed . Politics after 1991 was less about ideas than interests ...
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... became vice chairman of the ideology department ; he became , in other words , a lord of an orthodoxy that was two years away from death . Zyuganov first came to the attention of Russians in the late 1980s when it became possible for ...
... became vice chairman of the ideology department ; he became , in other words , a lord of an orthodoxy that was two years away from death . Zyuganov first came to the attention of Russians in the late 1980s when it became possible for ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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