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
Churchill, Winston
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
civil-military relations See also army; Chechnya; coup d’état
Clark, Wesley
Clinton, Bill
and allegations of corruption in Yeltsin administration
on inadequate U.S. aid to Russia
and negotiations over Balkans
and re-election of Yeltsin
tardiness of
and Yeltsin’s drinking
on Yeltsin as Irish poet
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Cohen, Stephen F.
collectivization. See agricultural collectivization
Communist Party of Russian Federation. See KPRF
Communist Party of Soviet Union See also Central Committee; Politburo; Russian Communist Party
apparatus of
congresses and conferences of
dissolution of
Soviet presidency as alternative to
Confession on an Assigned Theme (Yeltsin)
on activity as Communist Party secretary
on construction career
on early life
on family background
on secret speech and aftermath
writing and publication of
Constituent Assembly
constitutional conflict of 1992–93
parliament shelled
Yeltsin constitution adopted
Constitutional Court
on Yeltsin decrees about Communist Party
on ineligibility of Yeltsin for third term
corruption
under Yeltsin
Council of Europe
Council of Ministers
coup d’état (1991)
anniversary of
Crimean Tatars
cyclothymia
Dagestan
Danilov, I. V.
Davydov, Oleg
de Gaulle, Charles
DeBakey, Michael E.
Defense Council
dekulakization
democratic centralism
Democratic Russia
Yeltsin’s criticism of
demonetization
Deng Xiaoping
Denisyuk, Lidiya
Deripaska, Oleg
Dikun, Yelena
Dmitriyeva, Oksana
Dneprov, Eduard
Dole, Robert
Dolgikh, Vladimir
Dostoevsky, Fëdor
DSK. See Sverdlovsk House-Building Combine
Dubinin, Sergei
Dudayev, Djokhar
Dukakis, Michael
Dyachenko, Gleb
Dyachenko, Leonid
Dyachenko, Tatyana (daughter of BNYe)
and Berezovskii
childhood of
and 1996 election campaign
political influence of
on Ryabov
in Yeltsin household
on Yeltsin’s perfectionism
and Yumashev
Dybskii, Kirill
Dzerzhinsky, Felix
Eisenhower, Dwight
Erikson, Erik
Gandhi’s Truth
Esalen Foundation
European Parliament
European Union
Failed Crusade (Cohen)
“Family” group
Fatherland–All Russia Bloc
Federalist Papers
Federation Council
Federative Treaty
Fedotov, Mikhail
Fefelov, Aleksei
Filatov, Sergei
and presidential party
on Yeltsin’s aloofness
Financial Times
Five Hundred Days Program
compared with shock therapy
Fourth Chief Directorate of Soviet Ministry of Health
Fridman, Mikhail
Friedman, Milton
FSB (Federal Secur
ity Service)
FSK (Federal Counterintelligence Service)
Furmanov, Boris
Fëdorov, Boris
as finance minister
on Yeltsin’s style
Fëdorov, Nikolai
Fëdorov, Svyatoslav
G-7
G-8
Gaidar, Yegor
as acting prime minister
electoral activities of
and shock therapy
on Yeltsin as Il’ya Muromets
on Yeltsin’s disappointment with Putin
on Yeltsin’s style
Gandhi’s Truth (Erikson)
Garrison, James
Gavrilov, Ivan
Gavrilov, Prokofii
Gazprom
Gerashchenko, Viktor
Girin, Iosif
Girina, Mariya
Girina, Naina. See Yeltsina, Naina
GKChP (Public Committee for the State of Emergency)
GKOs (State Short-Term Obligations)
Glazunov, Il’ya
Glière, Reinhold
Glinka, Mikhail
Glinski, Dmitri
Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms
Gmelin, Johann
Golembiovskii, Igor
Golovacheva, Valentina. See Yeltsina, Valentina
Golushko, Nikolai
Gomzikov, Yakov
Gomzikova, Mariya. See Yeltsina, Mariya
Gopkalo, Pantelei
Gorbachev Foundation
Gorbachev, Mikhail
activities after December 1991
appreciation of Yeltsin’s acumen
and death of Yeltsin
early life compared with Yeltsin
incredulity at Yeltsin’s success
and 1991 coup
slowness to break with communist system
style compared with Yeltsin
Life and Reforms
underestimation of Yeltsin
on Yeltsin as confrontational
on Yeltsin as power seeker
Yeltsin’s relationship with (pre–April 1985)
Yeltsin’s relationship with (1985–87) secret speech and aftermathpassim
Yeltsin’s relationship with (1988–91) and dissolution of Soviet Union
Gorbachev, Sergei
Gorbacheva, Raisa
Gore, Al
Gorki
gorkom (city party committee)
Gorky, Maxim
Gorky. See Nizhnii Novgorod
Goryun, Andrei
Gosplan (State Planning Committee)
Gosstroi (State Construction Committee)
Yeltsin as first deputy chairman of
Grachëv, Pavel
as drinking companion of Yeltsin
and 1993 attack on Supreme Soviet
Graham, Billy
Great Patriotic War. See World War II
Grigor’ev, Anatolii
Grishin, Viktor
replaced by Yeltsin as Moscow Communist Party leader
Yeltsin attack on clients and policies of
Gromyko, Andrei
Grozny
Grushko, Viktor
Gukova, Yuliya
Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
Gulag
Guldimann, Tim
Guseletov, Aleksei
Gusinskii, Vladimir
conflict with Putin
and 1996 election campaign
and Svyazinvest dispute
Guvzhin, Anatolii
Hashimoto, Ryutaro
Havel, Václav
Hayek, Friedrich von
Hendrickson, Paul
Higher Komsomol School
Hoffman, David
Hook, Sidney
Hospital No. 2 (Sverdlovsk)
Hungary, Russian relations
with
Il’in, Aleksandr
Il’yushenko, Aleksei
Ilyukhin, Viktor
Ilyumzhinov, Kirsan
Ilyushin, Viktor
and letter to Yeltsin on drinking
and 1996 meeting with oligarchs
against postponement of 1996 presidential election
as senior assistant
IMF (International Monetary Fund)
impeachment. See under Russian Congress of People’s Deputies; State Duma
inflation
under Yeltsin
International Herald Tribune
Interregional Deputies Group
members not promoted under Yeltsin
weakness of
Yeltsin in leadership of
Ioganson, Boris
Ipat’ev House
Isakov, Vladimir
Iset River
Ishayev, Viktor
Ivan the Terrible
Ivanov, Tereshka
Izvestiya
Jackson, Michael
Jews
Jiang Zemin
John Paul II (pope)
Johnson, Lyndon
Kabakov, Ivan
Kadannikov, Vladimir
Kadochnikov, Sergei
Kaganovich, Lazar
Kalinin Machinery Works
Kalmykiya
Kama River
Kamensk-Ural’skii
Kantemirov Tank Division
Kapitonov, Ivan
Kapustyan, Ivan
Karabasov, Yurii
Karamzin, Nikolai
Kareliya
Karl Gustav, King
Katyn massacre
Kavarga, Dmitrii
Kazakhstan
Kazakov, Matvei
Kazan
Yeltsin family in
Yeltsin visits to
Kazan State University
Kazannik, Aleksei
Kaëta, Grigorii
Keller, Bill
KGB (Committee on State Security)
and 1991 coup
Ninth Directorate of
Putin and
reluctance of Yeltsin to abolish
surveillance of Yeltsin by
in Sverdlovsk
Khairullin, Vilen
Kharin, Gennadii
Khasavyurt accord
Khasbulatov, Ruslan
and Chechnya conflict
and constitutional conflict of 1992–93
and shock therapy
Khazanov, Gennadii
Khizha, Georgii
Khodorkovskii, Mikhail
arrest and imprisonment of
Khonina, Antonina
Khristenko, Viktor
Khrushchev, Nikita
eases membership in Communist Party
exiles opponents
housing program of
lived at Gorki-9
secret speech of
and RSFSR
Kirilenko, Andrei
Kiriyenko, Sergei
as prime minister
on Yeltsin’s contempt for bureaucracy
Kiselëv, Boris
Kislovodsk
Klyuchevskii, Vasilii
Kochur, Anatolii
Kohl, Hannelore
Kohl, Helmut
Kolbin, Gennadii
Kolchak, Aleksandr
kolkhoz (collective farm)
Kommunist
kompromat (compromising material)
Komsomol
Yeltsin as member of
Yeltsin’s critique of
Konoplëv, Boris
Konovalovaya
Konstantinova, Natal’ya
Korabel’shchikov, Anatolii
Kornai, Janos
Kornilov, Yurii
Korovin, Yevgenii
Korzhakov, Aleksandr
Boris Yeltsin
clique around
dismissal of
on Dyachenko and Berezovskii
influence of
and Kukly
and 1996 election campaign
and plan to subdue parliamentary deputies (1993)
and Yeltsin’s athletic activities
and Yeltsin’s depressions
and Yeltsin�
��s drinking
and Yeltsin as driver allegation of fatal car accident
Yeltsin’s friendship with
and Yeltsin’s health
on Yeltsin as provincial
Kostikov, Vyacheslav
on Yeltsin’s personality and style
Kostomarov, Nikolai
Kotkin, Stephen
Kovalëv, Sergei
Kozhukhov, Yurii
Kozyrev, Andrei
KPRF (Communist Party of Russian Federation) See also Zyuganov, Gennadii
and attempted impeachment of Yeltsin (1999)
and death of Yeltsin
and internment of Nicholas II
and Lenin Mausoleum
in parliamentary elections
proposed ban on
Krasnov, Mikhail
Kravchuk, Leonid
Kremlin
Alexander Nevsky Hall
Catherine’s Hall
Palace of Congresses
Red Staircase
restoration of
St. Andrei’s Hall
St. George’s Hall
Yeltsin’s first glimpse of
Yeltsin’s offices in
Kryuchkov, Nikolai
Kudrinskii, Sergei
Kukly
kulaks. See also dekulakization
Kursk submarine, sinking of
Kvashnin, Anatolii
la Repubblica
Lakhova, Yekaterina
Lantseva, Valentina
LDPR (Liberal Democratic Party of Russia)
Lebed, Aleksandr
and Chechnya
dismissal of
and 1996 election campaign
Lebedev, Nikolai
Ledeneva, Alena
Leikin, Mikhail
Lenin, Vladimir
mausoleum of
museum
office and statues of
policies of
Yeltsin compared with
Yeltsin’s views of
Leningrad affair
Leningrad. See St. Petersburg
Lermontov, Mikhail
Leskov, Nikolai
Levada, Yurii
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. See LDPR
Lieven, Anatol
Life and Reforms (Gorbachev)
Ligachëv, Yegor
conflict with Yeltsin
in post-Soviet politics
and promotion of Yeltsin to Moscow positions
and Yeltsin secret speech
Lisovskii, Sergei
Literaturnaya gazeta
Litvin, Aleksei
Livshits, Aleksandr
loans-for-shares
Lobov, Oleg
in Sverdlovsk
on victory in first Chechnya war
on Yeltsin’s competitiveness
on Yeltsin’s impatience with Soviet system
Logovaz
Lopukhin, Vladimir
Lower Depths (Gorky)
Lower Iset Construction Directorate
Lubyanka
Ludwig, Arnold M.
Lugar, Richard
Luk’yanin, Valentin
Luk’yanov, Anatolii
Lukashenko, Aleksandr
Lukin, Vladimir
lustration
Luther, Martin
Luzhkov, Yurii
influence ratings of
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