Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The making of a rebel
  • From engineer to party activist
  • Falling from grace and reemergence
  • The way to the top
  • Struggle for power
  • Yeltsin takes control
  • The demise of the Soviet Union
  • Yeltsin wins a new constitution
  • Yeltsin and the west: the early years
  • Backlash of the imposed democracy
  • Cooling of pro-western policies
  • Yeltsin holds on
  • The 1996 presidential election
  • The struggle against NATO's expansion
  • Government reshuffle and economic crisis
  • Challenges at home and abroad
  • Kosovo
  • The search for a successor
  • Yeltsin had the last word.