In telling Yeltsin's story, the author recounts the struggles of a great nation at one of its most fateful moments and chronicles the twentieth century's last great revolution.

 

"In his ambitious and perfectly timed new biography...Aron sets out to reclaim Yeltsin from the cartoonists and establish his importance as the instrument of a profound transformation of Russia. It is a complex and nuanced portrait, not adoring but unabashedly admiring. A godsend . . . a fine, full-blooded political portrait" – Bill Keller, New York Times

 

Leon Aron is a resident scholar at AEI*.

 

Table of Contents

•     To Survive, to Dare, to Succeed!
•     The Builder
•     The Pervyi

•     Perestroika, Mark I
•     Antaeus
•     The Year of Truth
•     America, America   

•     The Year of Choice
•     Rolling Up the Sleeves, Raising the Fists    

•     The Revolution
•     The President vs. the Soviet
•     The Nadir
•     Campaign '96: Choosing Russia's Fate
•     The Last Struggle
•     Epilogue: In Search of a Historic Yeltsin

 

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