Resurrection : the struggle for a new Russia / David Remnick
- Bib ID:
- 2947899
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Remnick, David
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Random House, c1997
- xiii, 398 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 067942377X (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Lost Empire
- 2. The October Revolution
- 3. The Great Dictator
- 4. The Exile
- 5. Moscow, Open City
- 6. The Banker, the President, and the President's Guard
- 7. Resurrections Everywhere
- 8. The Black Box
- 9. Yeltsin's Vietnam
- 10. Restoration Tragedy?
- 11. The War for the Kremlin
- Epilogue: Can Russia Change?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-380) and index.
- Subject:
- Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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