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    <body><![CDATA[It's nearly impossible to follow such a book as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Lenin's Tomb" title="Lenin's Tomb">Lenin's Tomb</a> but Remnick does a wonderful job at picking up where he left off. In <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Resurrection" title="Resurrection">Resurrection</a>, Remnick focuses on how the democratic revolution contended with disillusion. Yeltsin is the perfect character in this world: democratic promise gives way to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39717793">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Best with-the-people history of Russia in the early and mid 1990s. A must-read to understand everything that has occurred in Russian political society since 1996.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this after reading &quot;Lenin's Tomb,&quot; which is the precursor to this book. I have to admit, I only got halfway through &quot;Resurrection,&quot; as I was a little burned out with the Soviet Union at that point. This book focuses on the events immeditately following the fall of the USSR...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29062288">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good if you like Russian history. Gives a great first hand perspective of the events of the 1990's in Russia.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a bad analysis of the early years of Russia following the fall of the Soviet gov't. He writes well, and I think I would have enjoyed this more had I not been so burned out writing my Master's Thesis. <br/><br/>Lenin's Tomb is much better. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as captivating as Lenin's Tomb, with many reiterations from chapter to chapter that seem as if each chapter was its own project and the editor just pieced them all together without much summarization.]]></body>
    
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