Boris Yeltsin: Former Russian President

By Dhirubhai Patel

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.
Boris Yeltsin
Chapter 1: Boris Yeltsin
1.1 University and career in construction: 1949–1955
Chapter 2 : Communist Party membership
2.1 Moscow
2.2 Resignation
Chapter 3 : President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
3.1 1991 presidential election
Chapter 4 : President of the Russian Federation
4.1 Confrontation with parliament
4.2 Chechnya
4.3 Norwegian rocket incident
4.4 Privatization and the rise of "the oligarchs"
4.5 Korean Air Lines Flight 007
4.6 1996 presidential election
4.7 Yeltsin's second term
4.8 Attempted 1999 impeachment
4.9 Mabetex corruption
4.10 Resignation
Chapter 5 : Electoral history
5.1 Life after resignation
5.2 Death and funeral
Chapter 6 : Personal life
6.1 Reception and legacy
Chapter 7 : First Chechen War
7.1 Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation Treaty
7.2 Chechen declaration of independence
Chapter 8 : Internal conflict in Chechnya and the Grozny–Moscow tensions
Chapter 9 : Russian military intervention and initial stages
9.1 Storming of Grozny
9.2 Continued Russian offensive
9.3 Human rights and war crimes
9.4 Spread of the war
Chapter 10 : Continuation of the Russian offensive
10.1 Third Battle of Grozny and the Khasav-Yurt Accord
10.2 Aftermath
10.3 Prisoners and missing persons
10.4 Moscow peace treaty
Chapter 11 : Foreign policy implications
Chapter 12 : Boris Yeltsin 1996 presidential campaign
Chapter 13 : Campaign strategies
Chapter 14 : Campaigning in first round
14.1 Announcement of candidacy
14.2 Winter 1996
14.3 Spring 1996
14.4 Summer 1996
14.5 Result of the first round
Chapter 16 : Platform and positions
16.1 Economic policy
16.2 Military
16.3 Ending the Chechen War
16.4 Social policy
16.5 Soviet reunification
Chapter 17 : Image management
17.2 Media
17.3 Favorable media bias
17.4 Advertising
17.5 Support from business community
Chapter 18 : Campaign organizations

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jun 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716873386

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Boris Yeltsin

Chapter 1: Boris Yeltsin

1.1 University and career in construction: 1949–1955

Chapter 2 : Communist Party membership

2.1 Moscow

2.2 Resignation

Chapter 3 : President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

3.1 1991 presidential election

Chapter 4 : President of the Russian Federation

4.1 Confrontation with parliament

4.2 Chechnya

4.3 Norwegian rocket incident

4.4 Privatization and the rise of the oligarchs

4.5 Korean Air Lines Flight 007

4.6 1996 presidential election

4.7 Yeltsin's second term

4.8 Attempted 1999 impeachment

4.9 Mabetex corruption

4.10 Resignation

Chapter 5 : Electoral history

5.1 Life after resignation

5.2 Death and funeral

Chapter 6 : Personal life

6.1 Reception and legacy

Chapter 7 : First Chechen War

7.1 Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation Treaty

7.2 Chechen declaration of independence

Chapter 8 : Internal conflict in Chechnya and the Grozny–Moscow tensions

Chapter 9 : Russian military intervention and initial stages

9.1 Storming of Grozny

9.2 Continued Russian offensive

9.3 Human rights and war crimes

9.4 Spread of the war

Chapter 10 : Continuation of the Russian offensive

10.1 Third Battle of Grozny and the Khasav-Yurt Accord

10.2 Aftermath

10.3 Prisoners and missing persons

10.4 Moscow peace treaty

Chapter 11 : Foreign policy implications

Chapter 12 : Boris Yeltsin 1996 presidential campaign

Chapter 13 : Campaign strategies

Chapter 14 : Campaigning in first round

14.1 Announcement of candidacy

14.2 Winter 1996

14.3 Spring 1996

14.4 Summer 1996

14.5 Result of the first round

Chapter 16 : Platform and positions

16.1 Economic policy

16.2 Military

16.3 Ending the Chechen War

16.4 Social policy

16.5 Soviet reunification

Chapter 17 : Image management

17.2 Media

17.3 Favorable media bias

17.4 Advertising

17.5 Support from business community

Chapter 18 : Campaign organizations

Boris Yeltsin

Chapter 1: Boris Yeltsin

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian government official who filled in as the primary president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. An individual from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, he later remained as a political free, during which time he was ideologically lined up with radicalism and Russian patriotism.

Conceived in Butka, Sverdlovsk Oblast to a worker family, Yeltsin experienced childhood in Kazan. Subsequent to learning at the Ural State Technical University, he worked in construction. Joining the Communist Party, which administered the Soviet Union as a one-party state as per Marxist-Leninist precept, he rose through its positions and in 1976 turned out to be First Secretary of the party's Sverdlovsk Oblast board. At first a supporter of the perestroika changes of Soviet pioneer Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin later condemned them as being excessively moderate, requiring a progress to a multi-party agent popular government. In 1987 he was the primary individual to leave the party's administering Politburo, building up his prevalence as a defiant figure. In 1990, he was chosen seat of the Russian Supreme Soviet and in 1991 was chosen president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). Aligning with different non-Russian patriot pioneers, he was instrumental in the proper dissolution of the Soviet Union in December that year, at which the RSFSR turned into the Russian Federation, an autonomous state. Yeltsin stayed in office as president and was reappointed in the 1996 election, in spite of the fact that pundits asserted inescapable electoral defilement.

Yeltsin changed Russia's state socialist economy into an entrepreneur showcase economy by actualizing economic stun therapy, advertise conversion scale of the ruble, across the country privatization, and lifting of value controls. Economic breakdown and swelling resulted. In the midst of the economic move, few oligarchs got a larger part of the national property and wealth, while worldwide imposing business models came to rule the market. During the 1993 Russian established emergency, Yeltsin requested the illegal dissolution of the Supreme Soviet parliament, which reacted by endeavoring to expel him from office. In October 1993, troops faithful to Yeltsin halted an outfitted uprising outside of the parliament building; he then presented another constitution. Secessionist slant in the Russian Caucasus prompted the First Chechen War, War of Dagestan, and Second Chechen War somewhere in the range of 1994 and 1999. Universally, Yeltsin advanced restored joint effort with Europe and consented to arms control arrangements with the United States. In the midst of developing internal weight, in 1999 he surrendered and was prevailing by his picked successor, previous Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Out of office, he stayed under the radar and was later given a state funeral.

Yeltsin was a questionable figure. Locally he was exceptionally well known in the late 1980s and mid 1990s, despite the fact that his notoriety was harmed by the economic and political emergencies of his administration and he left office generally disliked with the Russian population. He got acclaim for his job in disassembling the Soviet Union, changing Russia into an agent majority rules system, and presenting new political, economic, and social opportunities to the nation. On the other hand, he was blamed for economic botch, regulating an enormous development in imbalance and defilement, and of undermining Russia's remaining as a significant force to be reckoned with.

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His family, who were ethnic Russians, had lived right now the Urals since at any rate the eighteenth century. His father, Nikolai Yeltsin, had hitched his mother, Klavdiya Vasil'evna Starygina, in 1928. Yeltsin consistently stayed nearer to his mother than his father; the last beat the two his significant other and youngsters on different occasions.

The Soviet Union was then under the standard of Joseph Stalin, who drove the one-party state administered by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Trying to change over the nation into a socialist society as per Marxist-Leninist regulation, in the late 1920s Stalin's legislature had started an undertaking of mass provincial collectivisation combined with dekulakization. As a prosperous rancher, Yeltsin's paternal grandfather, Ignatii, was blamed for being a kulak in 1930. His ranch, which was in Basmanovo, was seized and he and his family had to dwell in a house in close by Butka. There, Nikolai and Ignatii's other kids were permitted to join the neighborhood kolkhoz (aggregate homestead), however Ignatii himself was not; he and his better half Anna were ousted to Nadezhdinsk in 1934, where he kicked the bucket two years later.

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As a newborn child, Yeltsin was dedicated into the Russian Orthodox Church; his mother was sincere yet his father unobservant. In the years following his introduction to the world, the territory was hit by the starvation of 1932–33; all through his adolescence, Yeltsin was regularly hungry. In 1932, Yeltsin's folks moved to Kazan, where Yeltsin went to kindergarten. There, in 1934, the OGPU captured Nikolai and condemned him to three years in the Dmitrov work camp, blamed for hostile to Soviet agitation. Yeltsin and his mother were then shot out from their living arrangement yet taken in by companions; Klavdiya worked at a piece of clothing manufacturing plant in her better half's absence. In October 1936, Nikolai returned and in July 1937, the couple's subsequent kid, Mikhail, was born. That month, they moved to Berezniki in Perm Krai, where Nikolai got take a shot at a potash consolidate project. There, in July 1944, they had a third youngster, the girl Valentina.

Somewhere in the range of 1939 and 1945, Yeltsin got essential instruction at Berezniki's Railway School Number 95. Academically, he got along admirably at grade school and was more than once chose class screen by individual pupils. There, he likewise partook in exercises composed by the Komsomol and Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization. From 1945 to 1949, Yeltsin learned at the city optional school number 1, otherwise called Pushkin High School. This covered with Soviet contribution in the Second World War, during which Yeltsin's paternal