Russia and Eurasia: October 2000

Yeltsin and the Evolution of Electoral Monarchy in Russia

By: Lilia Shevtsova

Description: "Yeltsin's revolutionary rhetoric helped him create the appearance of a complete break with the past, but that break was never as clean as was imagined at first, nor could it have been. Yeltsin's destruction of the Soviet state looks less like a revolution than a palace coup."

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