19 Richard Sakwa, Putin: Russia’s Choice, rev. ed. (London: Routledge, 2008), xi.
20 Henry Yasas, quoted in Tatyana Gershkovich, “Remembering Yeltsin,” Moscow Times, September 14, 2007. Some pictures are available at http://www.art4.ru/ru/news/news_detail.php?ID=2994&block_id=28.
21 Gershkovich, “Remembering Yeltsin.” Kavarga’s own description of the work in materials distributed at the gallery places more emphasis on the chaos depicted, “without which an absolutely new creation would be impossible.” Yeltsin’s name, he said, should be read as “fixing in memory either the formation or the crushing of our latest illusion.”
22 Gukova’s description from the exhibit.
23 Description at the exhibit by Tavasiyev.
24 Description at the exhibit by Leikin and Miturich-Khlebnikova.
Index
Abramovich, Roman
Achalov, Vladislav
Aeroflot
Afanas’ev, Viktor
Afanas’ev, Yurii
Against the Grain. See Confession on an Assigned Theme
Ageyev, Gelii
Agrarian Party
agricultural collectivization
Yeltsin’s critique of
Akayev, Askar
Akchurin, Renat
Aksënenko, Nikolai
Albright, Madeline
Alekperov, Vagit
Aleksii II (Orthodox patriarch)
on Yeltsin as believer
Alma-Ata accord
Amiel, Barbara
Andreas, Dwayne
Andropov, Yurii
and planned transfer of Yeltsin to Moscow
anti-Semitism
Arbatov, Georgii
Arkhangel’skoye-2
army
attempted reform of
disarray of
impeachment charge over
arrears. See nonpayments
Atatürk, Kemal
Avakov, A. V.
Aviastroi
Ayatskov, Dmitrii
Badge of Honor
Bakatin, Vadim
Baker, James A.
Baklanov, Oleg
Baltym
Barannikov, Viktor
Barsukov, Mikhail
Barvikha
Basayev, Shamil
Bashilov, Sergei
Bashkirs
Bashkortostan (Bashkiriya)
Basilashvili, Oleg
Basmanovo
Batalin, Yurii
Baturin, Yurii
Bayev, Vyacheslav
Belarus (Belorussia)
proposed union of Russia with
Belovezh’e Forest accord
impeachment charge over
renounced by State Duma
Belyakov, Yurii
Belyakovka River
Beregovaya
Berezniki Potash Combine
Berezniki
Yeltsin family in
Yeltsin family’s move to
Berezovskii, Boris
exile of
and 1996 election campaign
political influence of
Berlin, Yeltsin drinking incident in
Berlin, Isaiah
Bezrukov, Sergei
Bichukov, Anatolii
biography, neglect of in Russia
Black Tuesday
Bobykin, Leonid
Bocharov Ruchei. See Sochi
Bocharov, Mikhail
Bogdanov, Vladimir
Bogomyakov, Gennadii
Boiko, Maksim
Boldin, Valerii
Boldyrev, Yurii
Bolshevism, Yeltsinism compared with
Bonner, Yelena
Bordyuzha, Nikolai
Boris Yeltsin (Korzhakov)
Boris Yeltsin: The Man Who Broke Through the Wall
Boriska. See Kukly
Borodin, Pavel
alleged corruption of
and renovation of Kremlin
Bortsov, Valerii
Boutros Ghali, Boutros
Brakov, Yevgenii
Brezhnev, Leonid
approval of Yeltsin as Sverdlovsk leader
constitution of
cronies of
and demotion of Ryabov
personality cult of
and RSFSR
and Sverdlovsk
Brodskii, Igor
Bryntsalov, Vladimir
Budënnovsk
Burbulis, Gennadii
electoral activities of
and institutional changes
and shock therapy
on Yeltsin as arbitrator
on Yeltsin and KGB
Yeltsin’s relationship with
on Yeltsin as savior figure
Burlakov, Matvei
Burns, James MacGregor
Burtin, Yurii
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H. W.
early doubts about Yeltsin
negotiations with Yeltsin
revised assessment of Yeltsin
Bush, George W.
Butkapassim
retirement of Yeltsin’s parents and grandparents to
Caro, Robert
Castro, Fidel
Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Center for Presidential Priorities
Center for Study of Public Opinion. See VTsIOM
Central Bank of Russia
Central Clinical Hospital. See TsKB
Central Committee
Bureau for RSFSR Affairs
dissolution of
delegates to USSR Congress of People’s Deputies chosen by
plenums of
Secretariat of Yeltsin in
Yeltsin as member of unanimity disregarded by
Yeltsin secret speech to (1987)
Chazov, Yevgenii
Chebrikov, Viktor
Chechevatov, Viktor
Chechnya See also terrorism
first war in media criticism of
impeachment charge over
independence declaration of
peace negotiations over
second war in
Chekhov, Anton
Chelnokov, Nikolai
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chernomyrdin, Viktor
attempted comeback of
and Chechnya
as continuer of Gaidar reforms
dismissal of
and Gazprom
as juggler of people and interests
and Korzhakov
and 1996 election campaign
and 1993 election campaign
and Our Home Is Russia
and Russian Congress of People’s Deputies
on Yeltsin as guarantor of reform
on Yeltsin’s aloofness
and Yeltsin’s heart surgery
Yeltsin’s relationship with
Chernyayev, Anatolii
on sources of Yeltsin’s appeal
on Yeltsin’s exit from the CPSU
on Yeltsin secret speech
Chirac, Jacques
Christopher, Warren
Chub, Vladimir
Chubais, Anatolii
as chief of staff
in government of young reformers
as privatizer
and Svyazinvest dispute
and Yeltsin’s campaign for re-election
on Yeltsin’s historical role
Chudakov, Aleksandr
Chudakova, Marietta
Church of Beheading of John the Baptist
Church of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin
Churchill, Winston
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
civil-military relations See also army; Chechnya; coup d’état
Clark, Wesley
Clinton, Bill
and allegations of corruption in Yeltsin administration
on inadequate U.S. aid to Russia
and negotiations over Balkans
and re-election of Yeltsin
tardiness of
and Yeltsin’s drinking
on Yeltsin as Irish poet
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Cohen, Stephen F.
collectivization. See agricultural collectivization
Communist Party of Russian Federation. See KPRF
Communist Party of Soviet Union See also Central Committee; Politburo; Russian Communist Party
apparatus of
congresses and conferences of
dissolution of
Soviet presidency as alternative to
Confession on an Assigned Theme (Yeltsin)
on activity as Communist Party secretary
on construction career
on early life
on family background
on secret speech and aftermath
writing and publication of
Constituent Assembly
constitutional conflict of 1992–93
parliament shelled