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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... tion and gave rise to a gigantic upsurge in material and spiritual wealth in the second half of the present millennium . One physically feels the effect of this culture as one takes a stroll through some German or British campus , where ...
... tion and gave rise to a gigantic upsurge in material and spiritual wealth in the second half of the present millennium . One physically feels the effect of this culture as one takes a stroll through some German or British campus , where ...
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... tion of the news . Kozyrev's assurances , however , would turn out to be meaningless . Yeltsin , for his part , kept his distance from NTV and the press as a whole . In the Gorbachev era , he had been extremely available , especially to ...
... tion of the news . Kozyrev's assurances , however , would turn out to be meaningless . Yeltsin , for his part , kept his distance from NTV and the press as a whole . In the Gorbachev era , he had been extremely available , especially to ...
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... tion and landgrab program in history . There were many ways to get rich in the new Russia ; nearly all of them depended on some kind of connec- tion to state power . Men like Boris Gidaspov , a Leningrad Party chief who had made his ...
... tion and landgrab program in history . There were many ways to get rich in the new Russia ; nearly all of them depended on some kind of connec- tion to state power . Men like Boris Gidaspov , a Leningrad Party chief who had made his ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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