disillusionment with communism
and dissolution of Soviet Union
elected president of Russia
embarrassing incidents around
exit from Communist Party
first visit to United States
in Gosstroi
and 1991 coup; speech on tank
at Nineteenth CPSU Conference
and Russian rights
physical and mental recovery of
program for de-monopolization
Russian Congress of People’s Deputies: elected to chosen chairman of
USSR Congress of People’s Deputies: elected to parliamentarian in
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as president of Russia (1991–99). See also Chechnya
and constitutional conflict of 1992–93
dismissal of Chernomyrdin
economic reforms of
external resistances to radical change
foreign policy of
foreign travels of
governance by
heart surgery of
improvisations by
internal resistances to radical change
and mass media
models of leadership
1996 campaign for re-election of
and oligarchs
political weakening of
populism repudiated by
refusal to create a political party
resignation of
and search for national idea
search for successor
and stabilization of federal system
symbolic decisions of
and young reformers
Yeltsin, Dmitrii (uncle of BNYe)
Yeltsin, Ignatii (paternal grandfather of BNYe)passim
Yeltsin, Ivan (soldier)
Yeltsin, Ivan (uncle of BNYe)
Yeltsin, Mikhail (brother of BNYe)
Yeltsin, Nikolai (father of BNYe) passim
arrest and incarceration of
Yeltsin’s relationship with
Yeltsin, Savva (great-great grandfather of BNYe)
Yeltsin, Sergei (ancestor of BNYe)
Yeltsin, spellings of the name
Yeltsin, Yekim (great-grandfather of BNYe)
Yeltsina, Anna (paternal grandmother of BNYe)passim
Yeltsina, Klavdiya (mother of BNYe) passim
death of
Yeltsin’s relationship with
Yeltsina, Mariya (aunt of BNYe)
Yeltsina, Naina (wife of BNYe)
in Communist Party
and death of Yeltsin
and dissident literature
and Gorbachev
and Korzhakov
marriage of
and 1996 election campaign
and renovation of Kremlin
religious views of
and Yeltsin’s drinking
and Yeltsin family life: in Sverdlovsk in Moscow
on Yeltsin and multiparty system
on Yeltsin secret speech and aftermath
on Yeltsin’s restlessness
and Yeltsin’s retirement
Yeltsina, Tatyana. See Dyachenko, Tatyana
Yeltsina, Valentina (sister of BNYe)
Yeltsina, Yelena. See Okulova, Yelena
Yerin, Viktor
Yerina, Margarita
Yesenin, Sergei
Yevstaf’ev, Arkadii
Yevtushenko, Yevgenii
Young Pioneers
Youzhny, Mikhail
Yukos
Yumashev, Valentin
as chief of staff
and “Family” group
as ghostwriter of Yeltsin memoirs
and 1996 election campaign
and Yeltsin’s retirement speech
as Yeltsin son-in-law
Yumasheva, Polina
Yumasheva, Tatyana. See Dyachenko, Tatyana
Zadornov, Mikhail M. (economist)
Zadornov, Mikhail N. (comedian)
Zaidel, Robert
Zaikov, Lev
Zakharov, Mark
Zalesov, Mikhail
Zanin, Vasilii
Zav’yalov, Nikolai
Zavgayev, Doku
Zavidiya, Andrei
Zavidovo
Zemskov, A. I.
Zhdanov, Vladimir
Zhirinovskii, Vladimir
in 1991 presidential election
in 1996 presidential election
ZIL Works
Zor’kin, Valerii
Zubov, Valerii
Zucconi, Vittorio
Zverev, Sergei
Zyryanka River
Zyuganov, Gennadii
in 1996 presidential election passim
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