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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... force of more than forty thousand men - would invade Chechnya in mid - December , they had barely more than a week to ... forces and set out a deliberate plan to overwhelm the enemy with a superior force , " Pavel Felgengauer , the ...
... force of more than forty thousand men - would invade Chechnya in mid - December , they had barely more than a week to ... forces and set out a deliberate plan to overwhelm the enemy with a superior force , " Pavel Felgengauer , the ...
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... force - undermanned , confused , and egged on by a president and a defense minister who insisted on a quick victory— trudged through knee - high mud and blinding winter fogs and was met by well - trained guerrilla forces . The Chechens ...
... force - undermanned , confused , and egged on by a president and a defense minister who insisted on a quick victory— trudged through knee - high mud and blinding winter fogs and was met by well - trained guerrilla forces . The Chechens ...
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... forces . " When I saw the tanks firing and at the same time I saw priests inside with us , with their icons and crosses , I decided that this force of Russian Orthodoxy must be far greater than the forces outside . I met a priest who ...
... forces . " When I saw the tanks firing and at the same time I saw priests inside with us , with their icons and crosses , I decided that this force of Russian Orthodoxy must be far greater than the forces outside . I met a priest who ...
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The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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