Author: Timothy J. Colto
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: life, yeltsin
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2008-04-07
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 046501271X
ISBN-13: 9780465012718

A major reassessment of one of the most important--and complex--political figures of the modern age. 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 withdrawal of Soviet control over eastern Europe, it was Yeltsin--Russia’s first elected president--who buried the Soviet Union itself. Upon taking office, Yeltsin quickly embarked on a sweeping makeover of newly democratic Russia, beginning with a program of excruciatingly painful market ref

Author: George W. Breslauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: leaders, yeltsin, gorbachev
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2002-03-18
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521892449
ISBN-13: 9780521892445

Examining the strategies employed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to build leadership authority, George Breslauer focuses on the power of ideas, as leaders use them to mobilize support and to craft an image as effective problem solvers, indispensable consensus builders, and symbols of national unity. Throughout the book, Breslauer compares Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and Khrushchev and Brezhnev, analyzing the changes in policy, the strategies, and the political dilemmas that are common to all four administrations. He addresses such questions as: Could Yeltsin have pursued a more beneficial p

Author: Andrew Felkay
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: west, russia, yeltsin
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-06-30
List price: $88.95
ISBN-10: 0275965384
ISBN-13: 9780275965389

Boris Yeltsin set Russia on an unprecedented new political, economic, and foreign policy course. He pulled his country out of the Communist morass and charted a new Western foreign policy path for Russia. Felkay analyzes the successes and failures of Yeltsin’s attempts to integrate Russia into the world of Western democracies.

Author: Padma Desai
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: putin, yeltsin, reform, russia, conversations
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2006-04-13
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195300610
ISBN-13: 9780195300611

Much of the discussion of Russia’s recent post-Communist history has amounted, both in Russia and the West, to a series of monologues by strong-minded people with starkly divergent views. In contrast, Padma Desai’s conversations with influential, intelligent participants and observers provide the reader with a broad, nuanced view of what has and has not happened in the last fourteen years, and why. Conversations from Russia will thus serve as a much-needed reference volume, both for academics who study Russia and for laypeople who only have vague perceptions of what has occurred in

Author: Lilia Shevtsova
Publisher: Brookings Inst
Keywords: reality, myths, russia, yeltsin
Number of Pages: 341
Published: 1999-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0870031279
ISBN-13: 9780870031274

In this comprehensive assessment of what has happened in Russia since 1991—what has been accomplished and what so has so far failed—the author argues that the new situation in Russia cannot be defined simply in terms of either authoritarianism or liberal democracy. The reality is more complicated—a heterogeneous patchwork of despotism, liberalism, populism, paternalism, and democracy all coexisting. Russia’s political life is marked by plurality of views and actors. Opposition movements are proliferating. On the economic front, Russia crossed the threshold to a market econ

Author: Lilia Shevtsova
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Keywords: putin, legacies, yeltsin, transition, lost, russia
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2007-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0870032364
ISBN-13: 9780870032363

Authors:David Lane, Cameron Ross,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: gorbachev, yeltsin, elites, ruling, communism, capitalism, transition
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 1998-12-15
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0312216122
ISBN-13: 9780312216122

Crucial to the understanding of breakdown and transition are analyses of changes within the internal relations of national elites. In this book, the authors define and detail the political elites under state socialism, showing how the elites under Gorbachev were profoundly fragmented. They further reveal how, with the maturation of state socialism, new class interests arose which were cultivated by, and in turn influenced, the Gorbachev leadership. The authors put forth the argument that these class interests are strongly represented in today’s political "settlement" in Russia. They consider