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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... played us for dupes , " Ligachev said . “ When we caught on , it was too late . " To his allies , Gorbachev's ... plays also served briefly on the Party Central Committee . “ He lied to his circle of Communist Party people . He had a ...
... played us for dupes , " Ligachev said . “ When we caught on , it was too late . " To his allies , Gorbachev's ... plays also served briefly on the Party Central Committee . “ He lied to his circle of Communist Party people . He had a ...
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... played on emotional urges deep inside nearly every Russian . Some Russian thinkers , like Herzen , understood that the typical Russian is both attracted and repelled by Europe and the idea of Europe ; a push and pull in his self ...
... played on emotional urges deep inside nearly every Russian . Some Russian thinkers , like Herzen , understood that the typical Russian is both attracted and repelled by Europe and the idea of Europe ; a push and pull in his self ...
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... played tennis , took saunas , stayed up through the night talking , drinking . " Of course , Korzhakov is not very well educated and has some odd ideas about human rights , but he was extremely loyal to Yeltsin , ” said one former ...
... played tennis , took saunas , stayed up through the night talking , drinking . " Of course , Korzhakov is not very well educated and has some odd ideas about human rights , but he was extremely loyal to Yeltsin , ” said one former ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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