The Morass in Moscow: Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Four Crises

Issue Date April 1993
Volume 4
Issue 2
Page Numbers 4-16
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About the Author

Leon Aron is resident scholar and director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life (2000) and Roads to the Temple: Memory, Truth, Ideas and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987–1991 (2012).

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