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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... coup . The failure of the coup was the spark that lit a bonfire beneath the old union structures . Lithuania had already declared independence in 1990 , but with the failure of the coup and the weakness it revealed , one repub- lic ...
... coup . The failure of the coup was the spark that lit a bonfire beneath the old union structures . Lithuania had already declared independence in 1990 , but with the failure of the coup and the weakness it revealed , one repub- lic ...
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... coup d'état . Words like " coup " and " putsch " were common currency in Moscow political talk ; so much so that every time one politician made a move against another , " coup " and " putsch " would be trotted out as the nouns of choice ...
... coup d'état . Words like " coup " and " putsch " were common currency in Moscow political talk ; so much so that every time one politician made a move against another , " coup " and " putsch " would be trotted out as the nouns of choice ...
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... coup . Three weeks later , the tanks rolled into the center of Moscow . " You can't say that ' A Word to the People ' was directly tied to the coup , but there was a direct metaphysical relationship between the docu- ment and the event ...
... coup . Three weeks later , the tanks rolled into the center of Moscow . " You can't say that ' A Word to the People ' was directly tied to the coup , but there was a direct metaphysical relationship between the docu- ment and the event ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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