Volume 45, Number 6 · April 9, 1998
How Russia Is Ruled
By David Remnick
Boris Yel'tsin: Ot Rassveta do Zakata (Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk)
by Aleksandr Korzhakov
Moscow: Interbook Publishers, 477 pp.
The Russian Intelligentsia
by Andrei Sinyavsky, translated by Lynn Visson
Columbia University Press, 98 pp., $19.95
If we have learned anything from the strange and epic story of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin these past ten years it is that no tsar is hero to his bodyguard. Or not for long, anyway. We know this because, in the new tradition of Russian politics, the bodyguard in question has written a marvelously venomous memoir that seems truthful in spirit, if not in every fact.
Review, 6210 words
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