Volume 43, Number 9 · May 23, 1996
Hammer, Sickle, and Book
By David Remnick
BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THIS ESSAY
Za Gorizontom (Beyond the Horizon)
by Gennady Zyuganov
Oryol: Veshniye Vodi Publishers, 189 pp.
Veru v Rossiyu (I Believe in Russia)
by Gennady Zyuganov
Voronezh: Voronezh Publishers, 381 pp.
Rossiya i Sovremenii Mir (Russia and the Modern World)
by Gennady Zyuganov
Moscow: Obozryevatel' Publishers, 95 pp.
Preobrazheniye (Transformation)
by Andrei Kozyrev
Moscow: Mezhdunarodniye Otnosheniya Publishers, 344 pp.
The imagery of triumph and even comedy that attended the events of August 1991 in Russia comforted, and ultimately deceived, the world. The men of the Communist Party, the Army, and the KGB who had tried to seize power in the name of Leninist principles and imperial preservation betrayed their weakness before the cameras: their hands trembled, they drank themselves senseless, they could not bear to pull the trigger (except in the case of one conspirator, Interior Affairs minister Boris Pugo, who, when all was lost, shot his wife, then himself).
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