Colton, Timothy J.

Yeltsin: a life / Timothy J. Colton - New York: Basic Books, c2008. - vii, 616 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-592) and index.

Hero As Paradox -- Self-Reliance -- Scripts -- Only Forward -- A Boss with a Difference -- Megalopolis -- The Mutineer -- The Yeltsin Phenomenon -- Birth of a Nation -- A Great Leap Outward -- Resistances -- Falling Apart, Holding Together -- Boris Agonistes -- Governing the State -- Reconnecting -- Autumn of a President -- Endgame -- Aftermath -- Coda: Legacies of an Event-Shaping Man. Introduction. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17.

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