Review excerpt:
Leon Aron's massive biography of Yeltsin is a serious effort to capture the man who was championed in the West as Russia's great hope. It traces Yeltsin's career from his birth near Sverdlovsk in 1931 to the middle of his second term as Russia's president. (The chronology indicates that the book was completed in 1998.) The emerging portrait is weaker on the man's personality than on his public activity.
Dusko Doder is coauthor, with Louise Branson, of Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin. Their latest book, Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant, was published in November.
In the latest issue of Health Policy Outlook, 