The New Russia

Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia, by David Remnick (Random House, 398 pp., $25.95)

DAVID Remnick received the Pulitzer Prize for Lenin’s Tomb, his story of the collapse and fall of the Soviet Empire, and so I was wary of his second installment. What passes for prize-winning Western reporting on Russia is often such shallow drivel that one is instinctively skeptical. As far as I know, the Pulitzer that Walter Duranty received for his vignettes of happy peasants in Ukrainian kolkhozes, written in the midst of the Stalin-made genocidal famine in the 1930s, has never been withdrawn.

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Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia, by David Remnick (Random House, 398 pp., $25.95)

DAVID Remnick received the Pulitzer Prize for Lenin’s Tomb, his story of the collapse and fall of the Soviet Empire, and so I was wary of his second installment. What passes for prize-winning Western reporting on Russia is often such shallow drivel that one is instinctively skeptical. As far as I know, the Pulitzer that Walter Duranty received for his vignettes of happy peasants in Ukrainian kolkhozes, written in the midst of the Stalin-made genocidal famine in the 1930s, has never been withdrawn.