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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... building . Makashov shouted his demands : the troops must leave the building and give up their arms . There was a sense of imminence , of euphoria , among the White House forces now . Someone with a guitar was singing old vic- tory ...
... building . Makashov shouted his demands : the troops must leave the building and give up their arms . There was a sense of imminence , of euphoria , among the White House forces now . Someone with a guitar was singing old vic- tory ...
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... building , which soon would be known as the Black House . " When the tanks fired it was something terrible , " said Veronika Kutsillo , the Kommersant reporter who stayed inside the build- ing . " It felt as if the building would ...
... building , which soon would be known as the Black House . " When the tanks fired it was something terrible , " said Veronika Kutsillo , the Kommersant reporter who stayed inside the build- ing . " It felt as if the building would ...
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... Building . For Moscow , this building would embody the perma- nence and the genius of the regime : it would be its Pyramids , its cathedral at Chartres . Just as the czar had initiated a design competition for the cathedral , Stalin ...
... Building . For Moscow , this building would embody the perma- nence and the genius of the regime : it would be its Pyramids , its cathedral at Chartres . Just as the czar had initiated a design competition for the cathedral , Stalin ...
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The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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