Resurrection (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Remnick
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Boris Yeltsin, Yegor Gaidar, Ruslan Khasbulatov, Vladimir Gusinsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Zhirinovsky
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: Culture, Communism or communists, Politics, Literature, Unemployment or unemployed workers, Ethics, 1990’s, East and West, Russia or Russian people, Inflation
- Locales: Russia
On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. When the new year dawned, by agreement of the political entities that composed it, the Soviet Union was dissolved. The creation of Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Joseph Stalin, born in blood in 1917, dubbed “the evil empire” by President Ronald Reagan, had endured some seventy-three years of revolution, civil war, famine, terror, and wars hot and cold. The hopes that arose in the post-Stalin era under Nikita Khrushchev had been dashed by the progressive putrefaction of the Soviet regime that followed under...
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