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My Russia: The Political Autobiography of Gennady Zyuganov: The Political Autobiography of Gennady Zyuganov
Gennady A. Zyuganov is the leader of Russia's resurgent Communist Party and the opposition coalition of 'National Patriotic Forces.' Zyuganov was Boris Yeltsin's strongest challenger in the 1996 presidential elections. Although his face became familiar to the world at that time, his ideas and his program were mainly a subject of speculation. This volume makes available to
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Hardcover
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240 pages
Published
June 30th 1997
by Routledge
(first published April 1997)
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Mercifully, the authors opted to compile a variety of speeches and political statements rather than a ghostwritten biography. His speech at Yeltsin's trial of the CPSU is worth reading, as is his reaction to the stolen 1996 election. The longer essays are interesting for their references to 1920s Eurasianism, Orthodoxy, and Berdiaev. The same cannot be said of his political vision, if one can call it that.
This is a mish-mash of speeches, party platform stuff, and an official autobiography from Zyuganov's 1996 campaign, with some commentary about his loss to Yeltsin. The autobiographical section more or less follows the standard Soviet format ("I was born to a proletarian family in Stavropol, my father was an electrician, etc. etc."). Some of the political theory is interesting in terms of late Soviet revisions of Marxism-Leninism, as it simultaneously stresses the importance of Soviet Communism a
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Gennady A. Zyuganov is the leader of Russia's resurgent Communist Party and the opposition coalition of 'National Patriotic Forces.'
Zyuganov was Boris Yeltsin's strongest challenger in the 1996 presidential elections.
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Zyuganov was Boris Yeltsin's strongest challenger in the 1996 presidential elections.
