After helping foil the August 1991 coup, Boris Yeltsin was viewed a hero by many Russians, but that was not to last.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS/ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO)
Marshall I. Goldman
For Russians, a symbol of weakness and loss
After helping foil the August 1991 coup, Boris Yeltsin was viewed a hero by many Russians, but that was not to last.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS/ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO)
HISTORIANS WILL have a hard time deciding on Boris Yeltsin's legacy. For some, especially for those of us living in the West, Yeltsin will be treated as a reformer who helped to transform Russia into a democratic, market economy. For most Russians, however, he will be remembered as the leader on whose watch the Russian gross domestic product fell by ... (Full article: 837 words)
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