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Yeltsin; A Revolutionary Life
200087544New York: Thomas Dunn Books An imprint of St. Martin's Press 2000. First U.S. Edition Stated First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bruce Reedy Author photograph. xxiii 1934 2 pages. Footnotes. Map. Illustrations. Brief Chronology. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In English with some Russian text. Author dated inscription in Russian on the fep. Inscription translates as To Dear Barbara with great respect and gratitude for her surprising patience. Leon April 13 2000. Excerpted from the American Enterprise Institute website: "Leon Aron is Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of three books and over 300 articles and essays. He is the author of the first full-scale scholarly biography of Boris Yeltsin Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life; Russia s Revolution: Essays 1989-2006; and most recently Roads to the Temple: Memory Truth Ideas and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution 1987-1991. Dr. Aron earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University has contributed an opening chapter to The New Russian Foreign Policy Council on Foreign Relations 1998 the first detailed and systematic account of the intellectual and moral revolution that precipitated the Soviet collapse. Dr. Aron has contributed numerous essays and articles to newspapers and magazines. From 2014 to 2020 Dr. Aron was a governor of the Broadcasting Board of Governors which oversees the operations of several international broadcasting outlets including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. From 1990 to 2004 he was a panelist on Looking from America Gliadya iz Ameriki a weekly Voice of America Russian-language radio and television show. Dr. Aron has taught at Georgetown University. Derived from a Kirkus review: If Russia in Churchill's words is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma this splendid biography by Aron does much to unwrap the mystery of one of Russia's most enigmatic statesmen. Opinion in the West about Yeltsin has veered from incomprehension through idolatry almost to contempt. While showing Yeltsin's conspicuous faults it is Aron's great virtue to reveal his even more impressive virtues: Even as an apparatchik Yeltsin showed an enormous capacity for work was demanding incorruptible and almost disdainful of the privileges to which he was entitled. But his supreme virtue has been his courage: his unprecedented criticism of the corruption of the old guard at the 70th Party Conference in 1987; his steadfast refusal to bow to attempts to discipline him; the memorable moment when with Gorbachev in detention he rallied the democratic forces by his speech from a tank; the economic revolution which in the teeth of diehard opposition he brought to Russia; and perhaps most remarkable of all his insistence—in the face of plummeting polls pessimistic advisers and his own illness—on holding democratic elections as scheduled in 1996 ultimately winning against all odds. In between there were some inglorious moments: the brutal and incompetent war in Chechnya; the periods of passivity depression and apathy; and the times when a corrupt group "under the pseudonym Yeltsin" seemed to run the country. But for all these failings Yeltsin has provided in the most tolerant and the least aggressive regime in Russian history "the irreducible tripartite core of a modern democracy": a free press free opposition and free elections. In richness of information analysis and judgment Aron illuminates not only a great man but a supremely critical period of Russian history. Thomas Dunn Books )An imprint of St. Martin's Press] hardcover
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