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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... peasant uprisings in Tambov and in western Siberia in the early 1920s . " That every revolution , " Solzhenitsyn said , " brings out instincts of primeval barbarity , the sinister forces of envy , greed , and hatred — this even its ...
... peasant uprisings in Tambov and in western Siberia in the early 1920s . " That every revolution , " Solzhenitsyn said , " brings out instincts of primeval barbarity , the sinister forces of envy , greed , and hatred — this even its ...
Page 215
... peasant , and holy fool . Pilgrims would come to Tol- stoy's estate at Yasnaya Polyana , and if they were fortunate enough to re- ceive an audience they would ask questions as if to a priest : What is the nature of sin ? What is the ...
... peasant , and holy fool . Pilgrims would come to Tol- stoy's estate at Yasnaya Polyana , and if they were fortunate enough to re- ceive an audience they would ask questions as if to a priest : What is the nature of sin ? What is the ...
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... peasantry in Ukraine and southern Russia through forced collectivization and arti- ficial famine , was bound to have made life fine again for the farmers on the kolkhoz . " You know , I am acquainted with the documents , " Zyuganov told ...
... peasantry in Ukraine and southern Russia through forced collectivization and arti- ficial famine , was bound to have made life fine again for the farmers on the kolkhoz . " You know , I am acquainted with the documents , " Zyuganov told ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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