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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I cannot write simply to be able to say, 'Look how cleverly I have crafted this.' I
refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to
approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
I cannot write simply to be able to say, 'Look how cleverly I have crafted this.' I
refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to
approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
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I would drive through one neighborhood and wonder when had all those green-
glass office buildings gone up; when had the neighborhood started to look like
Dallas? And when did this neighborhood, with its exquisite small offices and ...
I would drive through one neighborhood and wonder when had all those green-
glass office buildings gone up; when had the neighborhood started to look like
Dallas? And when did this neighborhood, with its exquisite small offices and ...
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the look says. “How could I stay in business otherwise?” It's as if you had asked
him if he cheats the rain by wearing a raincoat. The “privatized” bureaucrat
demanding cash for a signature was the 1 98 | R E Su R RECT i O N.
the look says. “How could I stay in business otherwise?” It's as if you had asked
him if he cheats the rain by wearing a raincoat. The “privatized” bureaucrat
demanding cash for a signature was the 1 98 | R E Su R RECT i O N.
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Contents
The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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| Title | Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia |
| Author | David Remnick |
| Publisher | Random House, 1997 |
| ISBN | 067942377X, 9780679423775 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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