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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin[ a ][ b ] (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990.
- Boris Yeltsin’S Early Years
- Boris Yeltsin’S Political Comeback and The Collapse of The Soviet Union
- Boris Yeltsin as President
- Russia After Boris Yeltsin
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 ...
In July 1990 Yeltsin quit the Communist Party. His victory in the first direct, popular elections for the presidency of the Russian republic (June 1991) was seen as a mandate for economic reform. During the brief coup against Gorbachev by hard-line communists in August 1991, Yeltsin defied the coup leaders and rallied resistance in Moscow while calling for the return of Gorbachev.
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Sep 20, 2024 · The State Council bore the same name as the highest consultative body in Russia before 1917, a deliberate attempt to establish continuity with pre-Communist Russia. Yeltsin’s team consisted of three groups: one made up of former party officials from Sverdlovsk, where Yeltsin had been party secretary; a second including Russian Premier Silayev ...
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May 17, 2018 · Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (born 1931), who became president of Russia in 1991, was one of the most complex and enigmatic political leaders of his time. A long-time Communist Party leader in Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg) and later Moscow, he was an important leader in the reform movements of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Boris Yeltsin, the former Russian president who died on Monday, was the first elected leader of the largest country on earth. ... He rose to become a construction manager and joined the Communist ...
Apr 24, 2007 · Boris N. Yeltsin, Russia’s first freely elected leader, presided over the end of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party.
