Yeltsin: A Life

Index

Abramovich, Roman

Achalov, Vladislav

Aeroflot

Afanas’ev, Viktor

Afanas’ev, Yurii

Against the Grain. See Confession on an Assigned Theme

Ageyev, Gelii

Agrarian Party

agricultural collectivization

Yeltsin’s critique of

Akayev, Askar

Akchurin, Renat

Aksënenko, Nikolai

Albright, Madeline

Alekperov, Vagit

Aleksii II (Orthodox patriarch)

on Yeltsin as believer

Alma-Ata accord

Amiel, Barbara

Andreas, Dwayne

Andropov, Yurii

and planned transfer of Yeltsin to Moscow

anti-Semitism

Arbatov, Georgii

Arkhangel’skoye-2

army

attempted reform of

disarray of

impeachment charge over

arrears. See nonpayments

Atatürk, Kemal

Avakov, A. V.

Aviastroi

Ayatskov, Dmitrii

Badge of Honor

Bakatin, Vadim

Baker, James A.

Baklanov, Oleg

Baltym

Barannikov, Viktor

Barsukov, Mikhail

Barvikha

Basayev, Shamil

Bashilov, Sergei

Bashkirs

Bashkortostan (Bashkiriya)

Basilashvili, Oleg

Basmanovo

Batalin, Yurii

Baturin, Yurii

Bayev, Vyacheslav

Belarus (Belorussia)

proposed union of Russia with

Belovezh’e Forest accord

impeachment charge over

renounced by State Duma

Belyakov, Yurii

Belyakovka River

Beregovaya

Berezniki Potash Combine

Berezniki

Yeltsin family in

Yeltsin family’s move to

Berezovskii, Boris

exile of

and 1996 election campaign

political influence of

Berlin, Yeltsin drinking incident in

Berlin, Isaiah

Bezrukov, Sergei

Bichukov, Anatolii

biography, neglect of in Russia

Black Tuesday

Bobykin, Leonid

Bocharov Ruchei. See Sochi

Bocharov, Mikhail

Bogdanov, Vladimir

Bogomyakov, Gennadii

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 Security 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

Yeltsin’s relationship with

Mabetex

Major, John

Makarevich, Andrei

Malashenko, Igor

in 1996 presidential election

Malenkov, Georgii

Malkin, Vitalii

Malkina, Tatyana

Malyshev, Nikolai

Manyakin, Sergei

Manyukhin, Viktor

Marxism-Leninism

Maskhadov, Aslan

Maslyukov, Yurii

Matlock, Jack

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Mazurov, Nikolai

MDG. See Interregional Deputies Group

Medvedev, Pavel

Medvedev, Sergei

Medvedev, Vadim

Mekhrentsev, Anatolii

Memorial Society

Menatep

Merkushkin, Nikolai

Mesyats, Gennadii

Mezentsev, Vladimir

Midnight Diaries. See Presidential Marathon

Military Compound No

military-industrial complex

Milošević, Slobodan

Milton, John

MishMash Project

Mitchell, George

Mittérrand, François

Miturich-Khlebnikova

Moiseyev, Mikhail

Molchanov, Sergei

Moldova

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Molotov. See Perm city and province

Morozov, Valerian

Morshchakov, Fëdor

Moskovskaya pravda

exposés of elite privilege in

anti-Yeltsin letters in

Murashov, Arkadii

Muromets, Il’ya

Muzykantskii, Aleksandr

MVD (Ministry of Interior)

Nadezhdinsk. See Serov

NATO

Nazarbayev, Nursultan

neformaly (informal organizations)

Nemtsov, Boris

in Chechnya with Yeltsin

in government of young reformers

and myth of Yeltsin as tsar

on oligarchs

as possible successor to Yeltsin

Nevsky, Alexander, painting of

New Economic Policy

New Russians

New York Times

Nezavisimaya gazeta

ratings of politicians in

on 1996 election campaign

Nicholas II

execution of him and royal family

internment of

Nikolayev, A. A.

Nikolayev, Andrei

Nikolayev, Konstantin

Nikolin, Viktor

Nikonov, Nikolai

Nit, Igor

Nixon, Richard

Nizhnii Novgorod

Yeltsin visits to

Nizhnii Tagil

political elite of

Nizovtseva, Alla

NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Interior)

nomenklatura (Communist Party elite)

nonpayments

Norilsk Nickel

Notes of a President (Yeltsin)

on family background and early life

on political actors and events

writing and publication of

on Yeltsin’s personality and views

Novgorod

Novodevichii Cemetery

Novo-Ogarëvo

NTV

Nunn, Sam

Nurnberg, Andrew

obkom (oblast party committee)

oblast

Obolenskii, Aleksandr

Ogonëk

OGPU (Combined State Political Directorate)

oil and gas industry

decontrol of prices in

politics of

privatization of

Yeltsin’s role under Soviets

Okulov, V. L.

Okulov, Valerii

Okulova, Yelena (daughter of BNYe)

in Moscow

Ol’kov, Yakov

Old Believers

Old Square

oligarchs

and 1996 election campaign

Putin’s attack on

Ondar, Kongar-ool

Order for Services to Fatherland

Order of Lenin

Order of Red Banner of Labor

Orenburg

Girin family in

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

ORT

Osin, Yevgenii

Oslon, Aleksandr

Ostankino

Oster, Grigorii

Ostrovsky, Alexander

Otletayev, Maksim

Our Home Is Russia

Pacolli, Behgjet

Pain, Emil

Pal’m, Viktor

Pamyat

Panov, Dmitrii

Panskov, Vladimir

Parkhomenko, Sergei

Pavlov, Valentin

perestroika (restructuring)

Perm city and province

Peter I (Aleksei Tolstoy)

Peter the Great

Yeltsin compared with

Yeltsin’s admiration for

Petrov, Vasilii

Petrov, Yurii

in Sverdlovsk

as Yeltsin’s chief of staff

Petrova, Nina

Petrova, Yelizaveta

Pickering, Thomas

Pikhoya, Lyudmila

Pikhoya, Rudol’f

Poland, Russian relations with

Polevanov, Vladimir

Politburo

decisions of

and promotions of Yeltsin

Yeltsin as candidate member of

and Yeltsin-Gorbachev conflict

and Yeltsin as threat to stability

Polozkov, Ivan

Poltoranin, Mikhail

fabricated version of Yeltsin secret speech

and Yeltsin’s conflict with Ligachëv

Poluzadov, Yurii

Ponomarëv, Leonid

Ponomarëv, Lev

Popov, Gavriil

and eradication of KGB

and seating of Yeltsin in Supreme Soviet

and Yeltsin as reform leader

and Yeltsin’s role in Interregional Deputies Group

against Yeltsin as USSR president

Poptsov, Oleg

on Yeltsin’s mutinous tendencies

on Yeltsin’s political arrhythmia

Potanin, Vladimir

Powers, Francis Gary

Pravda

reduced coverage of Yeltsin

reports on removal of Yeltsin from Moscow Communist Party position

Presidential Business Directorate

Presidential Club

Presidential Commission for Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression

Presidential Council

Presidential Executive Office

Presidential Marathon (Yeltsin)

on political actors and events

writing and publication of

on Yeltsin’s personality and views

Presidential Regiment

Presidential Security Service

Primakov, Yevgenii

as prime minister

on Yeltsin and Chechnya

Prisekin, Sergei

privatization

initiation of

resistance to

Yeltsin on mistakes made in

Prokof ’ev, Yurii

Promyslov, Vladimir

Protopopov, Vladimir

Prusak, Mikhail

Ptushko, Aleksandr

Public Committee for State of Emergency. See GKChP

Public Opinion Foundation

Pugachëv, Yemel’yan

Pulikovskii, Konstantin

Pushkin School (Berezniki)

Pushkin, Alexander

Putin, Vladimir

and death of Yeltsin

policies of

and reputation of Yeltsin

Yeltsin’s relationship with after retirement

Quayle, Dan

Raikhel’gauz, Iosif

Railway School No. 95 (Berezniki)

Rasputin, Grigorii

Razin, Stenka

Razumov, Yevgenii

Razumovskii, Georgii

Reagan, Ronald

red directors

Red Square

proposed reconstruction of

Reddaway, Peter

Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms

Reed, John

referendums

on confidence in Yeltsin (1993)

on constitution (1993)

1996 election as

on retention of USSR and Russian presidency (1991)

Yeltsin’s support of

Remnick, David

Repin, Il’ya

Reynolds, Albert

Rice, Condoleezza

Rodionov, Igor

Rogitskii, Stanislav

Romanovs. See Nicholas II

Roosevelt, Franklin

Rossel, Eduard

Rossiiskaya gazeta

Rostov

Rostropovich, Mstislav

RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)

renamed Russian Federation, or Russia

Russian nationalist sentiment in elite of

sovereignty declaration of

status within Soviet Union

RTR

RTS (Russian Trading System) index

Russia’s Choice

Russian Communist Party (1990–91)

Russian Congress of People’s Deputies

attempted impeachment of Yeltsin by

and constitutional conflict of 1992–93

dissolution of

opposition to Yeltsin reforms of

Yeltsin selected as chairman of

Russian émigrés

Russian national anthem

Russian Orthodox Church

Russian Supreme Soviet

and constitutional conflict of 1992–93

Rutskoi installed as acting president by

Yeltsin’s humiliation of Gorbachev at meeting of

Russkii telegraf

Rutskoi, Aleksandr

and Chechnya

and constitutional conflict of 1992–93, 259, 273–79 passim

generosity of

as Kursk governor

and position of presidential chief of staff

profanity of

punctuality of

and shock therapy

as Yeltsin’s running mate

Ryabov, Yakov

criticisms of Yeltsin

demotion of

as patron of Yeltsin

and Yeltsin’s ambition to leave Sverdlovsk

Ryazanov, El’dar

Rybkin, Ivan

Rykov, Aleksei

Ryurikov, Dmitrii

Ryzhkov, Nikolai

on danger of dissolution of Soviet Union

in 1991 presidential election

opposed to promotion of Yeltsin

in post-Soviet politics

and Yeltsin secret speech

Ryzhov, Yurii

Saikin, Valerii

in Yeltsin’s Moscow kitchen cabinet

and Yeltsin secret speech

Sakha

Sakharov, Andrei

assessment of Yeltsin

Salii, Aleksandr

Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail

Samson Agonistes (Milton)

Samsonov, Viktor

Sanders, Jonathan

Satarov, Georgii

and formation of presidential party

and 1996 election campaign

and project on Russian national idea

Savel’ëva (lecturer)

Sawyer, Diane

School No. 9 (Sverdlovsk)

Scowcroft, Brent

Secondary School No. 1 (Berezniki). See Pushkin School

Security Council

Berezovskii in

and first Chechnya war

Lebed in

Segodnya

Seleznëv, Gennadii

Semenchenko, Valerii

Sergeyev, Igor

Serov

Sevast’yanov, Vitalii

Sevuraltyazhstroi

Shaimiyev, Mintimer

Shakhnazarov, Georgii

Shakhnovskii, Vasilii

Shakhrai, Sergei

and dissolution of Soviet Union

electoral activities of

Shakkum, Martin

Shalayev, Stepan

Shaposhnikov, Yevgenii

Shapovalenko, Vladislav

Shatalin, Stanislav

Sheinis, Viktor

Shenderovich, Viktor

Shevardnadze, Eduard

Shevchenko, Vladimir

Shmelëv, Nikolai

shock therapy

consequences of

recovery from

shock worker

Shuiskaya Chupa

Shumeiko, Vladimir

Shushkevich, Stanislav

Sibneft

Sidanco

Sikorsky, Igor

Silayev, Ivan

and 1991 coup

Simonov, Pavel

Simpson, John

Sitnikov, Nikolai

Sklyarov, Yurii

Skokov, Yurii

Skuratov, Yurii

Smolenskii, Aleksandr

Sobchak, Anatolii

Sochi

Yeltsin decisions on reforms taken at

Sokolov, Ivan

Sokolov, Maksim

Solana, Javier

Solomentsev, Mikhail

Solov’ëv, Sergei

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Soros, George

Soskovets, Oleg

as ally of Korzhakov

dismissal of

and 1996 election campaign

as possible successor to Yeltsin

sovkhoz (state farm)

St. Petersburg

Yeltsin visits to

Yeltsin library to be built in

Stakhanovite

Stalin, Joseph

death of

demolition and defacement of landmarks by

personality cult of

policies of

proposed monument to victims of

purges and terror of

and RSFSR

Yeltsin compared with

Yeltsin’s views of

Stankevich, Sergei

and State Council

on Yeltsin’s historical role

Starovoitova, Galina

Starygin, Vasilii (maternal grandfather of BNYe)

self-reliance of

Starygina, Afanasiya (maternal grandmother of BNYe)

Starygina, Klavdiya. See Yeltsina, Klavdiya

State Council

of Russia

of USSR

State Duma

elections to

impeachment debate in

no-confidence motions by

Yeltsin compromises with

Stepashin, Sergei

as prime minister

on Yeltsin’s final say in second term

Strauss, Robert S.

Stroganov mines

Stroyev, Yegor

Struggle for Russia. See Notes of a President

SU-13 (Construction Directorate No. 13)

Sudakov, Gurii

Sukhanov, Lev

and 1989 visit of Yeltsin to United States

on Yeltsin’s disillusionment with communism

and Yeltsin remarks at Higher Komsomol School

Suslov, Mikhail

Sverdlov Hall. See Kremlin, Catherine’s Hall

Sverdlov, Yakov

Sverdlovsk city and province

anthrax outbreak in

development of

dissent in

Sverdlovsk diaspora

Sverdlovsk House-Building Combine

Sverdlovsk Youth Palace

Sverdlovsk

Sverdlovsk

Svyazinvest

Sylvenets, Ivashka

Talbott, Strobe

Talitsa

Taman Motorized Rifle Division

Tank No

Tarpishchev, Shamil

Tatars See also

Crimean Tatars

Tatarstan (Tatariya)

autonomy movement in

bilateral treaty with

Tatishchev, Vasilii

Tavasiyev, Rostan

Tbilisi

Temporary Extraordinary Commission for Strengthening Tax and Budgetary Discipline

terrorism

Thatcher, Margaret

Tikhonov, Nikolai

Time Machine

Timofeyevich, Yermak

Titov, Konstantin

Titov, Vladimir

Tolstoy, Aleksei

Tolstoy, Leo

Tomsk

Ton, Konstantin

Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms (Reddaway and Glinski)

Tret’yakov, Vitalii

on basis of Yeltsin’s popularity

on 1996 election campaign

on political weakening of Yeltsin

Troublemaker Kolkhoz

tsar

Yeltsin as

Tsipko, Aleksandr

TsKB (Central Clinical Hospital)

Tumanov, Vladimir

Tupolev, Andrei

Tuva

TV-6

Tyumen

Ufa

Ukhtomskii, Konstantin

Ukraine

Crimea, claims to

separatism as impediment to survival of Soviet Union

Ul’yanova, Olga

union treaty

United Nations

United States Congress

Unity Bloc

UPI (Urals Polytechnic Institute)

faculty in Yeltsin administration

Yeltsin’s classmates from

Yeltsin’s studies at

Upper Iset Works

Ural magazine

Ural’skii rabochii

Uralkhimmash

Uralmash

Urals State University

Urals Wagon Works

Urals

development of

ethos of

peasants in

speech mannerisms of

terror in

Usol’e

Usovo

USSR Congress of People’s Deputies

USSR Supreme Soviet

Yeltsin in

Ustinov, Dmitrii

Ustinov, Mikhail

Vakhrushev, Vasilii

Varennikov, Valentin

Vinogradov, Vladimir

Vlasov, Aleksandr

Vlasov, Yurii

Vol’skii, Arkadii

Volkogonov, Dmitrii

Volkov, Vladimir

Voloshin, Aleksandr

Volzhskii Utës

Vorkuta

Vorob’ëv, Andrei

Vorontsov, Nikolai

Vorotnikov, Vitalii

and 1989 election campaign

and 1990 election campaign

and RSFSR sovereignty resolution

and Yeltsin secret speech

Voshchanov, Pavel

VTsIOM (Center for Study of Public Opinion)

Vyakhirev, Rem

Wałesa, Lech

Wallenberg, Raoul

War Communism

Washington Post

Wellington, Duke of

Wolfensohn, James D.

World Bank

World Economic Forum

World War II

deportations during

hunger during

nostalgia for

patriotism during

Yabloko Party

Yaiva River

Yakovlev, Aleksandr

advice to make Yeltsin Soviet vice president

and reluctance of Yeltsin to abolish KGB

on Yeltsin’s contradictions

and Yeltsin secret speech

Yakovlev, Yegor

Yakunin, Gleb

Yanayev, Gennadii

Yandarbiyev, Zelimkhan

Yarov, Yurii

Yasin, Yevgenii

Yastrzhembskii, Sergei

Yavlinskii, Grigorii

and Five Hundred Days Program

in 1996 presidential election

Yazov, Dmitrii

Yegorov, Nikolai

Yekaterinburg. See Sverdlovsk

Yeliseyev, Aleksei

Yeltsin Epoch (collective memoir by aides)

Yeltsin Foundation

Yeltsin, Andrian (uncle of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Boris Andrianovich (cousin of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Boris, Jr. (grandson of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich

admission to Communist Party of Soviet Union

aloofness of

athletic activities of; hunting; swimming; tennis; volleyball

Barvikha-4 residence of; commute from; icons at; locked in steambath of; as retirement home

birth of

childhood of; female influence on; pranks during

christening of

construction career of

and crimes of Stalin period

death of

dress code of

drinking of; early moderation in; increase in; late curtailment of

education of

family life of; in Moscow

fondness for Urals

German studied by

Gorki-10 dacha of

Gorki-9 residence of and morality of occupying it

health of; in first presidential term; in 1996 election campaign; in second presidential term; in retirement

historical contribution of

impatience of

intuitive style of; and Gorbachev program; as opposition figure; and Putinand radical reforms

literary tastes of

marriage of

medals and awards of

mood swings of; before and after secret speech; as president

Moscow residences of: Second Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street Krylatskoye

musical tastes of

on cryptic forces in history

personal scripts ofduty rebellion success survival testing

property of

punctuality of

reading of

religious views of

retirement years of

Russian identity of

self-reliance of as social and political approach

seventy-fifth birthday of

as social democrat

sport as model for

steambath, love of

suicidal impulses of

television, ambivalence toward

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as Communist Party leader in Sverdlovsk (1968–85)

advancement into leading positions

compliant activism of

dominance of

as enforcer of communist orthodoxy

evolving worldview of

housing and perquisites of

and overcentralization of Soviet system

relations with mass of population

as spokesman for province

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as Communist Party leader in Moscow (1985–87). See also under Gorbachev, Mikhail

appointment as Central Committee official

appointment as Moscow first secretary

conflict with Ligachëv

personnel and policy shakeup by frustration at resistance to

political liberalization promoted by

populism of

radical rhetoric of

resignation letter to Gorbachev

secret speech to Central Committee disgraced and purged afterward

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as opposition political leader (1988–91). See also under Gorbachev, Mikhail

alleged fatal car accident

and decentralization of Russia

and democratic movement

disillusionment with communism

and dissolution of Soviet Union

elected president of Russia

embarrassing incidents around

exit from Communist Party

first visit to United States

in Gosstroi

and 1991 coup; speech on tank

at Nineteenth CPSU Conference

and Russian rights

physical and mental recovery of

program for de-monopolization

Russian Congress of People’s Deputies: elected to chosen chairman of

USSR Congress of People’s Deputies: elected to parliamentarian in

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, as president of Russia (1991–99). See also Chechnya

and constitutional conflict of 1992–93

dismissal of Chernomyrdin

economic reforms of

external resistances to radical change

foreign policy of

foreign travels of

governance by

heart surgery of

improvisations by

internal resistances to radical change

and mass media

models of leadership

1996 campaign for re-election of

and oligarchs

political weakening of

populism repudiated by

refusal to create a political party

resignation of

and search for national idea

search for successor

and stabilization of federal system

symbolic decisions of

and young reformers

Yeltsin, Dmitrii (uncle of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Ignatii (paternal grandfather of BNYe) passim

Yeltsin, Ivan (soldier)

Yeltsin, Ivan (uncle of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Mikhail (brother of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Nikolai (father of BNYe) passim

arrest and incarceration of

Yeltsin’s relationship with

Yeltsin, Savva (great-great grandfather of BNYe)

Yeltsin, Sergei (ancestor of BNYe)

Yeltsin, spellings of the name

Yeltsin, Yekim (great-grandfather of BNYe)

Yeltsina, Anna (paternal grandmother of BNYe) passim

Yeltsina, Klavdiya (mother of BNYe) passim

death of

Yeltsin’s relationship with

Yeltsina, Mariya (aunt of BNYe)

Yeltsina, Naina (wife of BNYe)

in Communist Party

and death of Yeltsin

and dissident literature

and Gorbachev

and Korzhakov

marriage of

and 1996 election campaign

and renovation of Kremlin

religious views of

and Yeltsin’s drinking

and Yeltsin family life: in Sverdlovsk in Moscow

on Yeltsin and multiparty system

on Yeltsin secret speech and aftermath

on Yeltsin’s restlessness

and Yeltsin’s retirement

Yeltsina, Tatyana. See Dyachenko, Tatyana

Yeltsina, Valentina (sister of BNYe)

Yeltsina, Yelena. See Okulova, Yelena

Yerin, Viktor

Yerina, Margarita

Yesenin, Sergei

Yevstaf’ev, Arkadii

Yevtushenko, Yevgenii

Young Pioneers

Youzhny, Mikhail

Yukos

Yumashev, Valentin

as chief of staff

and “Family” group

as ghostwriter of Yeltsin memoirs

and 1996 election campaign

and Yeltsin’s retirement speech

as Yeltsin son-in-law

Yumasheva, Polina

Yumasheva, Tatyana. See Dyachenko, Tatyana

Zadornov, Mikhail M. (economist)

Zadornov, Mikhail N. (comedian)

Zaidel, Robert

Zaikov, Lev

Zakharov, Mark

Zalesov, Mikhail

Zanin, Vasilii

Zav’yalov, Nikolai

Zavgayev, Doku

Zavidiya, Andrei

Zavidovo

Zemskov, A. I.

Zhdanov, Vladimir

Zhirinovskii, Vladimir

in 1991 presidential election

in 1996 presidential election

ZIL Works

Zor’kin, Valerii

Zubov, Valerii

Zucconi, Vittorio

Zverev, Sergei

Zyryanka River

Zyuganov, Gennadii

in 1996 presidential election passim