Boris Yeltsin: a Revolutionary Life Hb - Hardcover

Leon Aron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002559226 ISBN 13: 9780002559225

Publisher: Harper Collins, 1999

Synopsis

The definitive -- and gripping -- biography of a remarkable statesman. * This book is a revelation. The Boris Yeltsin that emerges from its pages is a leader of exceptional quality: determined, stubborn, brilliantly intelligent, direct and, perhaps above all, brave. * Aron skilfully plots Yeltsin's commitment to fighting corruption and centralization and ending the grotesque hypocrisy that so bedevilled the Soviet Union, while at the same time remaining fully alive to his subject's faults. * In doing so, he has written a magnificent history of Russia's last sixty years, and makes a series of highly illuminating comparisons with previous revolutions. * The result of these labours is nothing short of remarkable. It is a very exciting book, not because of its subject, but because of the pace, intelligence and quality of the writing. There are very long sections that are as unputdownable as a good thriller.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Leon Aron is Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and is rapidly emerging as the West's leading 'Yeltsinologist'. He was the leading American commentator during Boris Yeltsin's 1996 Presidential election campaign and was chosen by the TLS to review the Gorbachev memoirs when they were published in December 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0002559226
• ISBN 13: 9780002559225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 960