The Successor: The Story of Boris Nemtsov and the Country He Never Became President
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The Successor: The Story of Boris Nemtsov and the Country He Never Became President
29.99 €
"Successor: The Story of Boris Nemtsov and the Country Where He Never Became President" is a political biography of Boris Nemtsov, written by journalist Mikhail Fishman.
Nemtsov entered public life in the late 1980s, at the height of Gorbachev's perestroika. In the 1990s, he became governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, made a meteoric rise, and for a time, Yeltsin saw him as his successor.
In the 2000s, he joined the opposition to the government, and on February 27, 2015, he was assassinated on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge opposite the Kremlin. Nemtsov participated in and witnessed all the most important events in modern Russian history—from the first free elections and the 1991 coup to the Bolotnaya Square rallies of 2011–2012 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Based on hundreds of interviews, as well as archival data and memoirs, this book is a journey through Russian history over the past thirty years. Joining Nemtsov as he navigates all the major milestones of the country's recent past, the author seeks to answer the question: how and why did Russia lose the freedom it had gained?
Nemtsov entered public life in the late 1980s, at the height of Gorbachev's perestroika. In the 1990s, he became governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, made a meteoric rise, and for a time, Yeltsin saw him as his successor.
In the 2000s, he joined the opposition to the government, and on February 27, 2015, he was assassinated on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge opposite the Kremlin. Nemtsov participated in and witnessed all the most important events in modern Russian history—from the first free elections and the 1991 coup to the Bolotnaya Square rallies of 2011–2012 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Based on hundreds of interviews, as well as archival data and memoirs, this book is a journey through Russian history over the past thirty years. Joining Nemtsov as he navigates all the major milestones of the country's recent past, the author seeks to answer the question: how and why did Russia lose the freedom it had gained?
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