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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... friends on the Moscow River , we talked about Yakovlev's prediction of an " imminent " 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 ...
... friends on the Moscow River , we talked about Yakovlev's prediction of an " imminent " 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 ...
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... friends rescued him . Though he was among the last psychiatric prisoners under the old regime , Prigov had almost ... friend of mine in Moscow said she once saw Prigov when he appeared on a stage filled with other writers at a somber ...
... friends rescued him . Though he was among the last psychiatric prisoners under the old regime , Prigov had almost ... friend of mine in Moscow said she once saw Prigov when he appeared on a stage filled with other writers at a somber ...
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... friends ; I am forever asking for yet another favor , for another piece of ad- vice , and somehow the indulgence has been unending . Masha Lipman , who started out as a translator at The Washington Post bureau in Moscow , was foremost ...
... friends ; I am forever asking for yet another favor , for another piece of ad- vice , and somehow the indulgence has been unending . Masha Lipman , who started out as a translator at The Washington Post bureau in Moscow , was foremost ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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