Timothy Colton: Yeltsin

SU-13 (Construction Directorate No. 13)

Sudakov, Gurii

Sukhanov, Lev

and 1989 visit of Yeltsin to United States

on Yeltsin’s disillusionment with communism

and Yeltsin remarks at Higher Komsomol School

Suslov, Mikhail

Sverdlov Hall. See Kremlin, Catherine’s Hall

Sverdlov, Yakov

Sverdlovsk city and province

anthrax outbreak in

development of

dissent in

Sverdlovsk diaspora

Sverdlovsk House-Building Combine

Sverdlovsk Youth Palace

Sverdlovsk

Sverdlovsk

Svyazinvest

Sylvenets, Ivashka

Talbott, Strobe

Talitsa

Taman Motorized Rifle Division

Tank No

Tarpishchev, Shamil

Tatars See also

Crimean Tatars

Tatarstan (Tatariya)

autonomy movement in

bilateral treaty with

Tatishchev, Vasilii

Tavasiyev, Rostan

Tbilisi

Temporary Extraordinary Commission for Strengthening Tax and Budgetary Discipline

terrorism

Thatcher, Margaret

Tikhonov, Nikolai

Time Machine

Timofeyevich, Yermak

Titov, Konstantin

Titov, Vladimir

Tolstoy, Aleksei

Tolstoy, Leo

Tomsk

Ton, Konstantin

Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms (Reddaway and Glinski)

Tret’yakov, Vitalii

on basis of Yeltsin’s popularity

on 1996 election campaign

on political weakening of Yeltsin

Troublemaker Kolkhoz

tsar

Yeltsin as

Tsipko, Aleksandr

TsKB (Central Clinical Hospital)

Tumanov, Vladimir

Tupolev, Andrei

Tuva

TV-6

Tyumen

Ufa

Ukhtomskii, Konstantin

Ukraine

Crimea, claims to

separatism as impediment to survival of Soviet Union

Ul’yanova, Olga

union treaty

United Nations

United States Congress

Unity Bloc

UPI (Urals Polytechnic Institute)

faculty in Yeltsin administration

Yeltsin’s classmates from

Yeltsin’s studies at

Upper Iset Works

Ural magazine

Ural’skii rabochii

Uralkhimmash

Uralmash

Urals State University

Urals Wagon Works

Urals

development of

ethos of

peasants in

speech mannerisms of

terror in

Usol’e

Usovo

USSR Congress of People’s Deputies

USSR Supreme Soviet

Yeltsin in

Ustinov, Dmitrii

Ustinov, Mikhail

Vakhrushev, Vasilii

Varennikov, Valentin

Vinogradov, Vladimir

Vlasov, Aleksandr

Vlasov, Yurii

Vol’skii, Arkadii

Volkogonov, Dmitrii

Volkov, Vladimir

Voloshin, Aleksandr

Volzhskii Utës

Vorkuta

Vorob’ëv, Andrei

Vorontsov, Nikolai

Vorotnikov, Vitalii

and 1989 election campaign

and 1990 election campaign

and RSFSR sovereignty resolution

and Yeltsin secret speech

Voshchanov, Pavel

VTsIOM (Center for Study of Public Opinion)

Vyakhirev, Rem

Wałesa, Lech

Wallenberg, Raoul

War Communism

Washington Post

Wellington, Duke of

Wolfensohn, James D.

World Bank

World Economic Forum

World War II

deportations during

hunger during

nostalgia for

patriotism during

Yabloko Party

Yaiva River

Yakovlev, Aleksandr

advice to make Yeltsin Soviet vice president

and reluctance of Yeltsin to abolish KGB

on Yeltsin’s contradictions

and Yeltsin secret speech

Yakovlev, Yegor

Yakunin, Gleb

Yanayev, Gennadii

Yandarbiyev, Zelimkhan

Yarov, Yurii

Yasin, Yevgenii

Yastrzhembskii, Sergei

Yavlinskii, Grigorii

and Five Hundred Days Program

in 1996 presidential election

Yazov, Dmitrii

Yegorov, Nikolai

Yekaterinburg. See Sverdlovsk

Yeliseyev, Aleksei

Yeltsin Epoch (collective memoir by aides)

Yeltsin Foundation

Yeltsin, Andrian (uncle of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Boris Andrianovich (cousin of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Boris, Jr. (grandson of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich

admission to Communist Party of Soviet Union

aloofness of

athletic activities of; hunting; swimming; tennis; volleyball

Barvikha-4 residence of; commute from; icons at; locked in steambath of; as retirement home

birth of

childhood of; female influence on; pranks during

christening of

construction career of

and crimes of Stalin period

death of

dress code of

drinking of; early moderation in; increase in; late curtailment of

education of

family life of; in Moscow

fondness for Urals

German studied by

Gorki-10 dacha of

Gorki-9 residence of and morality of occupying it

health of; in first presidential term; in 1996 election campaign; in second presidential term; in retirement

historical contribution of

impatience of

intuitive style of; and Gorbachev program; as opposition figure; and Putinand radical reforms

literary tastes of

marriage of

medals and awards of

mood swings of; before and after secret speech; as president

Moscow residences of: Second Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street Krylatskoye

musical tastes of

on cryptic forces in history

personal scripts ofduty rebellion success survival testing

property of

punctuality of

reading of

religious views of

retirement years of

Russian identity of

self-reliance of as social and political approach

seventy-fifth birthday of

as social democrat

sport as model for

steambath, love of

suicidal impulses of

television, ambivalence toward

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as Communist Party leader in Sverdlovsk (1968–85)

advancement into leading positions

compliant activism of

dominance of

as enforcer of communist orthodoxy

evolving worldview of

housing and perquisites of

and overcentralization of Soviet system

relations with mass of population

as spokesman for province

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as Communist Party leader in Moscow (1985–87). See also under Gorbachev, Mikhail

appointment as Central Committee official

appointment as Moscow first secretary

conflict with Ligachëv

personnel and policy shakeup by frustration at resistance to

political liberalization promoted by

populism of

radical rhetoric of

resignation letter to Gorbachev

secret speech to Central Committee disgraced and purged afterward

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as opposition political leader (1988–91). See also under Gorbachev, Mikhail

alleged fatal car accident

and decentralization of Russia

and democratic movement

disillusionment with communism

and dissolution of Soviet Union

elected president of Russia

embarrassing incidents around

exit from Communist Party

first visit to United States

in Gosstroi

and 1991 coup; speech on tank

at Nineteenth CPSU Conference

and Russian rights

physical and mental recovery of

program for de-monopolization

Russian Congress of People’s Deputies: elected to chosen chairman of

USSR Congress of People’s Deputies: elected to parliamentarian in

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as president of Russia (1991–99). See also Chechnya

and constitutional conflict of 1992–93

dismissal of Chernomyrdin

economic reforms of

external resistances to radical change

foreign policy of

foreign travels of

governance by

heart surgery of

improvisations by

internal resistances to radical change

and mass media

models of leadership

1996 campaign for re-election of