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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... ideas Kozyrev was advertising . ( Almost no one read - or could find- Kozyrev's book . ) " When totalitarianism was being destroyed , the idea of ideology was being destroyed , too , " Satarov said . " The idea was formed that a national ...
... ideas Kozyrev was advertising . ( Almost no one read - or could find- Kozyrev's book . ) " When totalitarianism was being destroyed , the idea of ideology was being destroyed , too , " Satarov said . " The idea was formed that a national ...
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... idea of freedom is secondary to justice . The point is how to organize society , to organize its power , to conduct a social ex- periment . All this is essential to a Russian soul , and the Yeltsin people have never understood this . So ...
... idea of freedom is secondary to justice . The point is how to organize society , to organize its power , to conduct a social ex- periment . All this is essential to a Russian soul , and the Yeltsin people have never understood this . So ...
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... ideas , much less the liberal idea of political and intellectual pluralism , but in- stead were given to a systemic cast of mind . In the most extreme ways , they absorbed German historicism in its Hegelian form ( history as a gen- uine ...
... ideas , much less the liberal idea of political and intellectual pluralism , but in- stead were given to a systemic cast of mind . In the most extreme ways , they absorbed German historicism in its Hegelian form ( history as a gen- uine ...
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The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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