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      • Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. Though a Communist Party member for much of his life, he eventually came to believe in both democratic and free market reforms, and played an instrumental role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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  2. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] ⓘ; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

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    Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931, in Butka, a small Russian village in the Ural Mountains. His peasant grandparents had been forcibly uprooted by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture, and his father was arrested during the Stalin-era purges. In 1937 Yeltsin moved to the factory town of Berezniki, wh...

    Having been exiled to a relatively obscure position in the construction bureaucracy, Yeltsin began his political comeback in 1989 by winning election to a newly formed Soviet parliament with nearly 90 percent of the vote. The following year he won a similar landslide victory in a race for Russia’s parliament, became its chair and then renounced his...

    With the Soviet Union out of the way, Yeltsin eliminated most price controls, privatized a slew of major state assets, allowed for the ownership of private property and otherwise embraced free market principles. Under his watch, a stock exchange, commodities exchanges and private banks all came into being. But although a select few oligarchs became...

    On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin gave a surprise address announcing his resignation and asking the Russian people’s forgiveness for past mistakes. He then handed off power to Vladimir Putin, his chosen successor and the last of his prime ministers, who granted him immunity from prosecution. Yeltsin died on April 23, 2007, following a quiet retirement ...

  3. Jun 27, 2024 · Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician who became president of Russia in 1990. The following year he became the first popularly elected leader in the country’s history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching. Learn more about Yeltsin’s life and career.

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  4. May 28, 2024 · Collapse of the Soviet Union - Yeltsin, Post-Soviet, Russia: Yeltsin was elected president of Russia in 1990. The republics claimed their independence and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The Soviet Union was formally dissolved at midnight on December 31, 1991.

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  5. May 2, 2007 · Even more impressively, Yeltsin brought democracy to Russia, where it had never existed before. He did so by winning big against the communist establishment in the first partially democratic parliamentary elections in 1989 and 1990 and in the first Russian presidential elections in June 1991.

  6. On 25 December 1991, Boris Yeltsin, was full of presidential power in Russia in connection with the resignation of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the actual collapse of the USSR. Following the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin had transferred his residence from the Russia's White House to the Kremlin and he received the so ...

  7. Oct 22, 2018 · Key Accomplishments: Yeltsin won the first presidential election of the Russian Federation after the fall of the Soviet Union and the resignation of Gorbachev. Spouse's Name: Naina Yeltsina (m. 1956) Children's Names: Yelena and Tatyana.