YELTSIN: A Revolutionary LifeBy Leon AronSt. Martin’s, 934 pages, $35During a summer break from college, the young Boris Yeltsin asked friends to join him on a trip across the Soviet Union. When ...

What is one to make of Russia, of that vast mystery now unraveling? Is it the best of times or the worst of times? What is one to say when an American scholar-one who knows more about the Russians ...

President Bill Clinton begged Boris Yeltsin not to allow the military campaign against Slobodan Milošević to destroy their relationship. Photograph by Ira Wyman / Sygma / Getty ...

Thirty years ago this month, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell the parliament—a wedding cake–style building in downtown Moscow called the White House—and then to arrest ...

In his first interview with Western media since resigning New Year's Eve, a combative former Russian President Boris Yeltsin tells 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace that democracy is firmly established in ...

Boris Yeltsin is a lot like Ulysses S. Grant, and I think history will treat him in the same way as his American predecessor. Both men were heroes with alcoholic reputations when they became ...

2 Russian President Boris Yeltsin addresses a crowd of workers at the Kirov plant in Leningrad on March 23, 1991 (AFP) - Yeltsin was brought to Moscow from the Urals city of Sverdlovsk by Soviet ...

Visitors to the Boris Yeltsin Museum start their tour with a small mockup of the hall where, on Oct. 21, 1987, the president of what was then the Russian Socialist Republic gave a shocking speech ...

FormerRussian President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...

In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism. It was Sept. 16, 1989, and Yeltsin, then newly-elected to the new Soviet ...

Many associate the former Russian president more with Russia's decline than with the USSR's demise.

Houston Matters Boris Yeltsin’s 1989 Visit To A Houston Grocery Store Is Now An Opera “Yeltsin in Texas” is a mostly absurd reflection on the day the future Russian president visited a ...