Yeltsin’s journey to the top has been hard-fought and worthwhile. It started in 1961, when he joined the CPSU. In 1985-86, he was secretary of CPSU. Also, in 1985-87, he became first Deputy Chairman State Construction Committee. In 1989, he became minister in cabinet of the USSR. In1990, he was chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, President of the Russian Federation, and he was elected Executive President of Russia. In 1991, Yeltsin was inaugurated.
Yeltsin’s current office is President, Moscow, Russian Federation. Boris Yeltsin was the foremost leader in the breakdown of communist rule. His ideology focused on a series of changes to result in the rapid dwindling of communism. He promised effective and quick reforms, thus greatly increasing his popularity. The people in this region were ready and eager for change, and they were in full accordance with Yeltsin’s ideas of democracy. He was persistent to continue the reforms he had promised and democratic elections of Parliament showed his ability and willingness to make changes for the public benefit. Yeltsin has been and still is devoted to the advocacy of democracy, the establishment of a capitalist economy, and the expansion of the Russian economy.
Yeltsin has full support from the Russian Army in his reforms, but the traditional politicians and elites of old offer little or no support, especially after the present weakness of the Russian Parliament. However, he has total support from the United States and other Yeltsin’s plan is to continue stabilizing and expanding domestic economy through trade and foreign investment. He also believes in an increase of favorable diplomatic relations with neighboring regions. However, despite Yeltsin’s political success, recently he has encountered many problems. The current economic situation is one of fatigue, disillusionment, and dissatisfaction by Russia’s citizens. Russias legal revolution, virtually unnoticed in the West, is just one manifestation of the tectonic shift that took place during the eight years of the Yeltsin presidency. Boris Yeltsin shaped, inspired, led, and sustained at least three revolutions at once: a political revolution, which established some key principles and institutions of democracy (freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of political opposition, free legislative and parliamentary elections, and the separation of powers); an economic revolution, which introduced private property and a market economy; and an anti-imperial revolution, which, for the first time in history, separated the state of Russia from its empire.
The Term Paper on Russian Economy in the Late 1990s
The process of economic transformation in Russia has been marked by a prolonged transitional depression and macroeconomic instability: seven years of continuing decline resulted in a cumulative drop of GDP by more than 40% between 1989 and 1996; in that period there were also several outbursts of near- hyperinflation. The first radical effort to tackle inflation was the IMF-supported stabilization ...
He will be remembered as the man who ended Soviet communism, dissolved the Russian empire, led the country while it coped with the enormous, painful shocks of a new economic, political, and social reality, and prevented a Communist restoration-without abrogating human rights and political liberties.
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