Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin[a][b] (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to 1990.

2025年1月28日 · Boris Yeltsin (born February 1, 1931, Sverdlovsk [now Yekaterinburg], Russia, U.S.S.R.—died April 23, 2007, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian politician who became president of Russia in 1990. In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country’s history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic ...

The Presidential elections were held in Russia on 16 June 1996, with a second round on 3 July. The result was a victory for the incumbent President Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent candidate. Yeltsin defeated the Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov in the run-off, receiving 54.4% of the vote. His inauguration ceremony took place on 9 ...

2009年11月9日 · Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. Though a Communist Party member for much of his life, he eventually came to believe in both democratic and free...

2025年2月10日 · Collapse of the Soviet Union - Yeltsin, Post-Soviet, Russia: Yeltsin was elected president of Russia in 1990. The republics claimed their independence and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The Soviet Union was formally dissolved at midnight on December 31, 1991.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s tenure focused on establishing post-Soviet Russia and putting it on a democratic trajectory amidst enormous internal challenges. Yeltsin became the first president of the newly-created Russian Federation after the

The author of the acclaimed Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution now examines the impact of the collapse of Communism and of the subsequent disillusionment with capitalism on Soviet history. The uses of history after the 1991 coup and in the 1995 and 1996 elections are considered in detail.

Real power was in the hands of Boris Yeltsin, who only a month before had taken his oath of office as president of Russia. The central ministries of the Soviet government were paralyzed; officials in the central governmental structures did not know what their powers or prerogatives now were, or what their future might be.

The Yeltsin era was a traumatic period in Russian history; a period marked by massive, growing corruption, the loss of a sense of national identity, economic upheaval, and enormous political and social problems. A few people took advantage of the confusion of the Yeltsin era to amass enormous fortunes.

This article describes the efforts made by President Boris Yeltsin who was elected as the first Russian president and how his leadership in running the political wheel during the transition period. policy focuses on changing and accustoming society to democratic life. like the implementation of the economic liberalization program with one of ...