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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Remnick, David. Resurrection. New York : Random House, ©1997 (OCoLC)605968595 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Remnick |
ISBN: | 067942377X 9780679423775 |
OCLC Number: | 35723753 |
Description: | xiii, 398 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The lost empire -- The October Revolution -- The great dictator -- The exile -- Moscow, open city -- The banker, the president, and the president's guard -- Resurrections everywhere -- The black box -- Yeltsin's Vietnam -- Restoration tragedy? -- The war for the Kremlin -- Epilogue : Can Russia change? |
Responsibility: | David Remnick. |
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Abstract:
Resurrection 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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