The View from the Kremlin

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HarperCollins, 1994 - Political Science - 316 pages
In this book, his own account of the crises that beset his country from 1990 to 1993, Yeltsin reveals how close he came to losing control, how he made his fatal mistakes and key choices, and how he regards his achievements, his opponents and his allies, and assesses what remains to be done.

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Boris Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931. He graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk, where he studied construction, in 1955. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990 and began working for the administration in 1968. He became the first President of the Russian Federation in 1991 and served until 1999, when he resigned naming Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting president until the next election. He died on April 23, 2007 at the age of 76.

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TitleThe View from the Kremlin
AuthorBoris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Translated byCatherine A. Fitzpatrick
Editionillustrated
PublisherHarperCollins, 1994
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJul 1, 2008
ISBN0002555441, 9780002555449
Length316 pages
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