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| Dimensions: 2.50'' x 9.50'' x 5.25'' |
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| 934 pages |
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St. Martin's Press
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| Publication Date: January 2000 |
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| Hardcover |
| ISBN: 0312251858 |
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"In his ambitious and perfectly timed new biography...Aron sets out to reclaim Yeltsin from the cartoonists and establish his importance as the instrument of a profound transformation of Russia. It is a complex and nuanced portrait, not adoring but unabashedly admiring. A godsend . . . a fine, full-blooded political portrait." --Bill Keller, New York Times
Leon Aron is a resident scholar at AEI.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Illustrations
Part I :A Man from Sverdlovsk
- To Survive, to Dare, to Succeed!
- The Builder
- The Pervyi
Part II: The Bellwether
- Perestroika, Mark I
- Antaeus
- The Year of Truth
- America, America
Part III: The Storm
- The Year of Choice
- Rolling Up the Sleeves, Raising the Fists
Part IV: In Power
- The Revolution
- The President vs. the Soviet
- The Nadir
- Campaign '96: Choosing Russia's Fate
- The Last Struggle
- Epilogue: In Search of a Historic Yeltsin
Brief Chronology
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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