Yeltsin A Life

Name: Yeltsin A Life
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ISBN: 9780465012725

ISBN-10: 0465012728

ISBN-13: 9780465012725

Edition: N/A

Authors: Timothy J. Colton

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"Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and the ending of Soviet mastery in Eastern Europe, it was Yeltsin - the first elected national leader in Russia's long history - who buried the Soviet Union itself. Brought to Moscow by Gorbachev, Yeltsin soon clashed with him and went on to play a key part in the unraveling of the Soviet superpower. In 1991, after the flags changed on the Kremlin, he embarked on a sweeping makeover of the new Russia. Although the nation was vastly changed by the time he retired as president in 1999, Yeltsin was…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 8/23/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.65" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



Introduction: Hero As Paradox



Self-Reliance



Scripts



Only Forward



A Boss with a Difference



Megalopolis



The Mutineer



The Yeltsin Phenomenon



Birth of a Nation



A Great Leap Outward



Resistances



Falling Apart, Holding Together



Boris Agonistes



Governing the State



Reconnecting



Autumn of a President



Endgame



Aftermath


Coda: Legacies of an Event-Shaping Man


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index