Boris Yeltsin
Soviet politician and reform leader who visited the US in 1989.
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Boris Yeltsin was born on 1 February 1931 in Butka, a village in the Ural Oblast of the Russian SFSR.[1]
Key facts and history
In 1930, Yeltsin's paternal grandfather Ignatii, a prosperous farmer, was labeled a kulak, leading to the confiscation of his farm.[2] During his infancy, Yeltsin received a christening in the Russian Orthodox Church.[3] The Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk admitted Yeltsin in September 1949.[4] Yeltsin attained probationary status in the Communist Party in March 1960, becoming a full member one year later.[5]
The Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR elected Yeltsin as its chairman on 29 May 1990.[6]
What the research sources say
A BBC report from 12 July 1990 states that Yeltsin resigned from the Soviet Communist Party and that Gorbachev said "That ends the process logically"[7] The same BBC account describes Yeltsin as a "figurehead for radical reform" and a "trenchant critic of President Gorbachev"[7] Yeltsin wrote that seeing the stocked shelves made him "sick with despair for the Soviet people"[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Boris Yeltsin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Colton 2008, p. 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Boris Yeltsin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Сивилов, "Лидери, авторитаризъм и преходи по примери на Русия и Чили", Книжен плъх ООД, 2025, p. 61; Colton 2008, p. 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Boris Yeltsin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Colton 2008, p. 14; Colton 2008, p. 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Boris Yeltsin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Colton 2008, p. 14; Colton 2008, p. 14; Aron 2000, p. 10 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Boris Yeltsin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Colton 2008, p. 14; Colton 2008, p. 14; Colton 2008, p. 14; Colton 2008, p. 14; Colton 2008, p. 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Boris Yeltsin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Leon Aron, Boris Yeltsin A Revolutionary Life. HarperCollins, 2000. pp. 739–740.; Dobbs, "Yeltsin Wins Presidency of Russia", The Washington Post, 30 May 1990, p. A01 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "1990: Yeltsin resignation splits Soviet Communists", BBC, 12 July 1990. facts only, no text reused. news.bbc.co.uk
- "When Boris Yeltsin went grocery shopping in Clear Lake", Houston Chronicle, 31 January 2018. facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
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- Wikipedia: Boris Yeltsin (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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