"This is the first book tha puts Boris Yeltsin's leadershop of Russia Solidly into a historical perspective, and it's likely to be the best for a long time to com. It's more than a work of history : its insights into the forces that have shaped Russia's transition are of direct relevance to the task of charting U.S. and Western policy toward that process as it continues. Indeed, Russians themselves would learn a lot from this book about their own country-some of it reassuring, some of it cautionary, and all of it enlightening, clearly written and cogently argued.
Drawing on the knowledge, perspective and capacity for fair judgment that have charachterized his long, probing, often path-breaking study of the former Soviet Union, George Breslauer has connected the dots between Khrushchev's erratic reforms, Brezhnev's era of stagnation, Gorbachev's perestroika and Yeltsin's wild ride as the first president of a post-Soviet, post-communist Russia. The pattern that emerges makes Yeltsin, his predecessors and their country more comprehensible in both human and political terms. Geroge Breslaure has performed a service to scholarship, statesmanship and the challenge facing everyone who recognizes the importance of the drama underway in the heart of Eurasia."
- Strobe Talbot, Yale University, Former Deputy Secretary of
State
1. Leadership Strategies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
2. Gorbachev and Yeltsin: Personalities and Beliefs
3. The Rise of Gorbachev
4. Gorbachev Ascendant
5. Gorbachev on the Political Defensive
6. Yeltsin versus Gorbachev
7. Yeltsin Ascendant
8. Yeltsin on the Political Defensive
9. Yeltsin Lashes Out: The Invasion of Chechnya (December 1994)
10. Yeltsin's Many Last Hurrahs
,etc.