# Yeltsin

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- Book: [Yeltsin](https://www.bookquiver.com/timothy-colton/yeltsin) ([Yeltsin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/timothy-colton/yeltsin.md))
- Authors: [Timothy Colton](https://www.bookquiver.com/timothy-colton)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6501-272-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-08-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this penetrating biography, Timothy J. Colton,one of the English-speaking world's foremost experts on Russia,traces the life and struggles of Russia's first popularly elected president, Boris Yeltsin. Colton vividly narrates the life of a man who rose from agrarian roots to forge a new destiny for Russia and whose attempt at bringing democracy to his countrymen remains one of the great unfinished stories of our time. Yeltsin provides a refreshing portrait of this controversial yet critical leader who buried the Soviet Union and birthed its troubled heir.