Midnight Diaries

by Boris Yeltsin (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $19.96

  The only Russian leader in more than a century not to be overthrown or die in office reveals the story of his 10 years in power.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.28

  The struggles and upheavals in Russia over the last few years as seen from the top. Boris Yeltsin was the President of Russia for a decade. He overcame the coup of 1991, he developed good relationships with world leaders from Clinton to Helmut Kohl. What was the chemistry of his meetings with Jacques Chirac, Tony Blair and Ziang Zhao Min? How did he get on when the Queen visited Moscow, the first British Monarch to step onto Russian soil since before World War I. Yeltsin gives his account of the revolution in Chechnya and explains his feelings on the former Yugoslavia and why Russia couldn't intervene more effectively. The memoirs consider Yeltsin's often unreliable health, his bypass surgery, his depression and how he survived to retire on the eve of the new millennium. His views on non-Communist Russia, democracy, the struggling economy, the mafia and his own determination to give the citizens of Russia a better future are presented here.