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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... minister , is one of the few top - level officials to challenge the Gazprom hegemony , saying that the corporation ... minister Boris Fyodorov , say that the prime minister holds a 1 percent share in Gazprom . If that rumor is true and ...
... minister , is one of the few top - level officials to challenge the Gazprom hegemony , saying that the corporation ... minister Boris Fyodorov , say that the prime minister holds a 1 percent share in Gazprom . If that rumor is true and ...
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The Struggle for a New Russia David Remnick. Defense Minister Grachev , Interior Minister Viktor Yerin , Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets , Nationalities Minister Nikolai Yegorov , and the counterintelligence chief , Sergei Stepashin ...
The Struggle for a New Russia David Remnick. Defense Minister Grachev , Interior Minister Viktor Yerin , Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets , Nationalities Minister Nikolai Yegorov , and the counterintelligence chief , Sergei Stepashin ...
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... minister of internal affairs , Anatoly Kulikov . A career police chief , Kulikov had been brought in to clean up the ministry after it had badly botched the hostage rescue attempt in 1995 near the Chechen border in the town of ...
... minister of internal affairs , Anatoly Kulikov . A career police chief , Kulikov had been brought in to clean up the ministry after it had badly botched the hostage rescue attempt in 1995 near the Chechen border in the town of ...
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