Tolstoy, Aleksei
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomsk
Ton, Konstantin
Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms (Reddaway and Glinski)
Tret’yakov, Vitalii
on basis of Yeltsin’s popularity
on 1996 election campaign
on political weakening of Yeltsin
Troublemaker Kolkhoz
tsar
Yeltsin as
Tsipko, Aleksandr
TsKB (Central Clinical Hospital)
Tumanov, Vladimir
Tupolev, Andrei
Tuva
TV-6
Tyumen
Ufa
Ukhtomskii, Konstantin
Ukraine
Crimea, claims to
separatism as impediment to survival of Soviet Union
Ul’yanova, Olga
union treaty
United Nations
United States Congress
Unity Bloc
UPI (Urals Polytechnic Institute)
faculty in Yeltsin administration
Yeltsin’s classmates from
Yeltsin’s studies at
Upper Iset Works
Ural magazine
Ural’skii rabochii
Uralkhimmash
Uralmash
Urals State University
Urals Wagon Works
Urals
development of
ethos of
peasants in
speech mannerisms of
terror in
Usol’e
Usovo
USSR Congress of People’s Deputies
USSR Supreme Soviet
Yeltsin in
Ustinov, Dmitrii
Ustinov, Mikhail
Vakhrushev, Vasilii
Varennikov, Valentin
Vinogradov, Vladimir
Vlasov, Aleksandr
Vlasov, Yurii
Vol’skii, Arkadii
Volkogonov, Dmitrii
Volkov, Vladimir
Voloshin, Aleksandr
Volzhskii Utës
Vorkuta
Vorob’ëv, Andrei
Vorontsov, Nikolai
Vorotnikov, Vitalii
and 1989 election campaign
and 1990 election campaign
and RSFSR sovereignty resolution
and Yeltsin secret speech
Voshchanov, Pavel
VTsIOM (Center for Study of Public Opinion)
Vyakhirev, Rem
Wałesa, Lech
Wallenberg, Raoul
War Communism
Washington Post
Wellington, Duke of
Wolfensohn, James D.
World Bank
World Economic Forum
World War II
deportations during
hunger during
nostalgia for
patriotism during
Yabloko Party
Yaiva River
Yakovlev, Aleksandr
advice to make Yeltsin Soviet vice president
and reluctance of Yeltsin to abolish KGB
on Yeltsin’s contradictions
and Yeltsin secret speech
Yakovlev, Yegor
Yakunin, Gleb
Yanayev, Gennadii
Yandarbiyev, Zelimkhan
Yarov, Yurii
Yasin, Yevgenii
Yastrzhembskii, Sergei
Yavlinskii, Grigorii
and Five Hundred Days Program
in 1996 presidential election
Yazov, Dmitrii
Yegorov, Nikolai
Yekaterinburg. See Sverdlovsk
Yeliseyev, Aleksei
Yeltsin Epoch (collective memoir by aides)
Yeltsin Foundation
Yeltsin, Andrian (uncle of BNYe)
Yeltsin, Boris Andrianovich (cousin of BNYe)
Yeltsin, Boris, Jr. (grandson of BNYe)
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich
admission to Communist Party of Soviet Union
aloofness of
athletic activities of; hunting; swimming; tennis; volleyball
Barvikha-4 residence of; commute from; icons at; locked in steambath of; as retirement home
birth of
childhood of; female influence on; pranks during
christening of
construction career of
and crimes of Stalin period
death of
dress code of
drinking of; early moderation in; increase in; late curtailment of
education of
family life of; in Moscow
fondness for Urals
German studied by
Gorki-10 dacha of
Gorki-9 residence of and morality of occupying it
health of; in first presidential term; in 1996 election campaign; in second presidential term; in retirement
historical contribution of
impatience of
intuitive style of; and Gorbachev program; as opposition figure; and Putinand radical reforms
literary tastes of
marriage of
medals and awards of
mood swings of; before and after secret speech; as president
Moscow residences of: Second Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street Krylatskoye
musical tastes of
on cryptic forces in history
personal scripts ofduty rebellion success survival testing
property of
punctuality of
reading of
religious views of
retirement years of
Russian identity of
self-reliance of as social and political approach
seventy-fifth birthday of
as social democrat
sport as model for
steambath, love of
suicidal impulses of
television, ambivalence toward
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as Communist Party leader in Sverdlovsk (1968–85)
advancement into leading positions
compliant activism of
dominance of
as enforcer of communist orthodoxy
evolving worldview of
housing and perquisites of
and overcentralization of Soviet system
relations with mass of population
as spokesman for province
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as Communist Party leader in Moscow (1985–87). See also under Gorbachev, Mikhail
appointment as Central Committee official
appointment as Moscow first secretary
conflict with Ligachëv
personnel and policy shakeup by frustration at resistance to
political liberalization promoted by
populism of
radical rhetoric of
resignation letter to Gorbachev
secret speech to Central Committee disgraced and purged afterward
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as opposition political leader (1988–91). See also under Gorbachev, Mikhail
alleged fatal car accident
and decentralization of Russia
and democratic movement
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