Timothy Colton: Yeltsin

10 Gorbachev, of course, addressed these same issues in his own way, and, unlike Yeltsin, he also made conceptual breakthroughs on issues of war and peace. But Gorbachev’s reassessments on domestic issues were less thorough than Yeltsin’s, which explains why, in the radical climate of the times, Yeltsin consistently outbid him.

11 Isaiah Berlin, “On Political Judgment,” New York Review of Books, October 3, 1996, 26–30.

12 Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (New York: Knopf, 2002), xx.

13 Sergei Stankevich, interview with the author (May 29, 2001). Stankevich by the time of the interview had no use for Yeltsin and could not be suspected of bias in his favor.

14 Anatolii Kulikov, Tyazhëlyye zvëzdy (Heavy stars) (Moscow: Voina i mir, 2002), 410 (italics added).

15 The significance of negative as well as positive choices is clearly drawn in Richard J. Samuels, Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), 19.

16 Martin Gilman, “Becoming a Motor of the Global Economy,” Moscow Times, November 14, 2007.

17 Quotations from Thomas Carothers, “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” Journal of Democracy 13 (January 2002), 10, 12. Carothers was writing generally of countries that have lost their way in the transition, and not specifically about Russia.

18 Even Putin’s treatment of lower-level officials brings to mind Yeltsin’s early reputation as boss for the bosses. One observer has called him “the people’s czar who reins in ministers, bureaucrats, tycoons, and even the politicians of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.” Peter Finn, “In a Russian City, Clues to Putin’s Abiding Appeal,” The Washington Post, November 24, 2007.

19 Richard Sakwa, Putin: Russia’s Choice, rev. ed. (London: Routledge, 2008), xi.

20 Henry Yasas, quoted in Tatyana Gershkovich, “Remembering Yeltsin,” Moscow Times, September 14, 2007. Some pictures are available at http://www.art4.ru/ru/news/news_detail.php?ID=2994&block_id=28.

21 Gershkovich, “Remembering Yeltsin.” Kavarga’s own description of the work in materials distributed at the gallery places more emphasis on the chaos depicted, “without which an absolutely new creation would be impossible.” Yeltsin’s name, he said, should be read as “fixing in memory either the formation or the crushing of our latest illusion.”

22 Gukova’s description from the exhibit.

23 Description at the exhibit by Tavasiyev.

24 Description at the exhibit by Leikin and Miturich-Khlebnikova.

Abramovich, Roman

Achalov, Vladislav

Aeroflot

Afanas’ev, Viktor

Afanas’ev, Yurii

Against the Grain. See Confession on an Assigned Theme

Ageyev, Gelii

Agrarian Party

agricultural collectivization

Yeltsin’s critique of

Akayev, Askar

Akchurin, Renat

Aksënenko, Nikolai

Albright, Madeline

Alekperov, Vagit

Aleksii II (Orthodox patriarch)

on Yeltsin as believer

Alma-Ata accord

Amiel, Barbara

Andreas, Dwayne

Andropov, Yurii

and planned transfer of Yeltsin to Moscow

anti-Semitism

Arbatov, Georgii

Arkhangel’skoye-2

army

attempted reform of

disarray of

impeachment charge over

arrears. See nonpayments

Atatürk, Kemal

Avakov, A. V.

Aviastroi

Ayatskov, Dmitrii

Badge of Honor

Bakatin, Vadim

Baker, James A.

Baklanov, Oleg

Baltym

Barannikov, Viktor

Barsukov, Mikhail

Barvikha

Basayev, Shamil

Bashilov, Sergei

Bashkirs

Bashkortostan (Bashkiriya)

Basilashvili, Oleg

Basmanovo

Batalin, Yurii

Baturin, Yurii

Bayev, Vyacheslav

Belarus (Belorussia)

proposed union of Russia with

Belovezh’e Forest accord

impeachment charge over

renounced by State Duma

Belyakov, Yurii

Belyakovka River

Beregovaya

Berezniki Potash Combine

Berezniki

Yeltsin family in

Yeltsin family’s move to

Berezovskii, Boris

exile of

and 1996 election campaign

political influence of

Berlin, Yeltsin drinking incident in

Berlin, Isaiah

Bezrukov, Sergei

Bichukov, Anatolii

biography, neglect of in Russia

Black Tuesday

Bobykin, Leonid

Bocharov Ruchei. See Sochi

Bocharov, Mikhail

Bogdanov, Vladimir

Bogomyakov, Gennadii

Boiko, Maksim

Boldin, Valerii

Boldyrev, Yurii

Bolshevism, Yeltsinism compared with

Bonner, Yelena

Bordyuzha, Nikolai

Boris Yeltsin (Korzhakov)

Boris Yeltsin: The Man Who Broke Through the Wall

Boriska. See Kukly

Borodin, Pavel

alleged corruption of

and renovation of Kremlin

Bortsov, Valerii

Boutros Ghali, Boutros

Brakov, Yevgenii

Brezhnev, Leonid

approval of Yeltsin as Sverdlovsk leader

constitution of

cronies of

and demotion of Ryabov

personality cult of

and RSFSR

and Sverdlovsk

Brodskii, Igor

Bryntsalov, Vladimir

Budënnovsk

Burbulis, Gennadii

electoral activities of

and institutional changes

and shock therapy

on Yeltsin as arbitrator

on Yeltsin and KGB

Yeltsin’s relationship with

on Yeltsin as savior figure

Burlakov, Matvei

Burns, James MacGregor

Burtin, Yurii

Bush, Barbara

Bush, George H. W.

early doubts about Yeltsin

negotiations with Yeltsin

revised assessment of Yeltsin

Bush, George W.

Butkapassim

retirement of Yeltsin’s parents and grandparents to

Caro, Robert

Castro, Fidel

Cathedral of Christ the Savior

Center for Presidential Priorities

Center for Study of Public Opinion. See VTsIOM

Central Bank of Russia

Central Clinical Hospital. See TsKB

Central Committee

Bureau for RSFSR Affairs

dissolution of

delegates to USSR Congress of People’s Deputies chosen by

plenums of

Secretariat of Yeltsin in

Yeltsin as member of unanimity disregarded by

Yeltsin secret speech to (1987)

Chazov, Yevgenii

Chebrikov, Viktor

Chechevatov, Viktor

Chechnya See also terrorism

first war in media criticism of

impeachment charge over

independence declaration of

peace negotiations over

second war in

Chekhov, Anton

Chelnokov, Nikolai

Chernenko, Konstantin

Chernomyrdin, Viktor

attempted comeback of

and Chechnya

as continuer of Gaidar reforms

dismissal of

and Gazprom

as juggler of people and interests

and Korzhakov

and 1996 election campaign

and 1993 election campaign

and Our Home Is Russia

and Russian Congress of People’s Deputies

on Yeltsin as guarantor of reform

on Yeltsin’s aloofness

and Yeltsin’s heart surgery

Yeltsin’s relationship with

Chernyayev, Anatolii

on sources of Yeltsin’s appeal

on Yeltsin’s exit from the CPSU

on Yeltsin secret speech

Chirac, Jacques

Christopher, Warren

Chub, Vladimir

Chubais, Anatolii

as chief of staff

in government of young reformers

as privatizer

and Svyazinvest dispute

and Yeltsin’s campaign for re-election

on Yeltsin’s historical role

Chudakov, Aleksandr

Chudakova, Marietta

Church of Beheading of John the Baptist

Church of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin