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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796024303321

Autore

Zezina M. R (Marii︠a︡ Rostislavovna)

Titolo

A man of change : a study of the political life of Boris Yeltsin / / M.R. Zezina [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Glagoslav Publications, , 2015

©2014

ISBN

1-78437-938-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (945 p.)

Disciplina

947.0854092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PART 1. THE URALS""; ""Childhood. Landowners""; ""The construction worker�s career""; ""The Sverdlovsk regional committee""; ""PART 2. MOSCOW""; ""Director of the construction department, secretary of the CC CPSU""; ""A return to front-line politics""; ""PART 3. THE KREMLIN""; ""Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR""; ""President of the RSFSR""; ""The President during a politico-constitutional crisis""; ""Between battles: 1994-1995""; ""The presidential elections of 1996""; ""“The patriarch in his twilight years.� The President�s second term""

""The president in retirement""""EPILOGUE""; ""Endnotes""; ""INDIVIDUALS MENTIONED""

Sommario/riassunto

A Man of Change is a gift from the Foundation of the First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin otherwise known as The Yeltsin Fund, produced in cooperation with Glagoslav Publications and distributed with the aim to preserve the knowledge and memory of Russia's first President.  Boris Yeltsin will be remembered as the fierce, daring political leader who fought for democratic ideals of his nation during an unprecedented crisis when the Soviet empire had already fallen apart and new emerging nations had not yet firmly established themselves in the region. Russia took over from the