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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Page 154
... living wing " with six bedrooms and various living areas . A high wooden fence painted grass - green surrounds the ten - acre property . The house would not be ready for the Solzhenitsyns ' arrival that spring , and they were resigned to ...
... living wing " with six bedrooms and various living areas . A high wooden fence painted grass - green surrounds the ten - acre property . The house would not be ready for the Solzhenitsyns ' arrival that spring , and they were resigned to ...
Page 268
... living in exile , that the Chechens were the one group that utterly refused to submit to Soviet power . " The Chechens never sought to please , to ingra- tiate themselves with the bosses ; their attitude was always haughty and indeed ...
... living in exile , that the Chechens were the one group that utterly refused to submit to Soviet power . " The Chechens never sought to please , to ingra- tiate themselves with the bosses ; their attitude was always haughty and indeed ...
Page 352
... living evocation of the last days of Brezhnev and Andropov . " The man is a living corpse , " the ever - solicitous Vladimir Zhirinovsky told me at his office in the Duma . " We're just waiting for him to drop dead . " A few days before ...
... living evocation of the last days of Brezhnev and Andropov . " The man is a living corpse , " the ever - solicitous Vladimir Zhirinovsky told me at his office in the Duma . " We're just waiting for him to drop dead . " A few days before ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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