Against the Grain: An Autobiography

Against the Grain: An Autobiography

by Boris Yeltsin (Author), Boris Yeltsin (Author), M. Glenny (Translator), B.N. El'tsin (Author)

Synopsis

A combination of straightforward autobiography - his family background, education and career - and an account of the election campaign of 1989 when Yeltsin stood as a candidate for the Central Moscow Constituency and was elected with an 89 per cent majority.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 213
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 12 Mar 1990

ISBN 10: 0224027492
ISBN 13: 9780224027496

Author Bio
Michael Glenny was born in 1927. He learned Russian first at school and continued during his time in the army. At Oxford he read Russian and undertook post-graduate research in Soviet history and politics. He has translated over forty books, inlcuidng those of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Mikhail Bugalov. He is co-author with Norman Stone of The Other Russia, an oral history of Russians exiled by the revolution.