1. Yeltsin's Regime and the New Russia
Yeltsin's Regime and the New Russia When the Russian Federation became an independent state at the end of 1991, many presumed that the Yeltsin regime would be able to establish a "democratic- political system and a "capitalist- economic system in a relatively short period of time. ... The powerful interaction and fusion between politics and economics that characterized the state socialist system created a situation that was unique for the successor states of the Soviet Union. ... The hard-liners, who included many top government officials, staged a coup in August, placing Gorbachev u...
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