Mijail gorbachev y boris yeltsin biography
Naina yeltsina.
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich
(b.
Mijail gorbachev y boris yeltsin biography
), charismatic anticommunist reformer, first president of post-Soviet Russia.
Democrat or impatient revolutionary, corrupt schemer or populist, Boris Yeltsin displayed a certain recklessness from his childhood through his rise to the presidency of Russia.
While Yeltsin orchestrated the peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union, he succumbed to poor health and personal rule and failed to build a strong new Russian state.
Yeltsin was born on February 1, , and raised in Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg) Oblast in the Ural Mountains.
He received a degree in construction engineering from Urals Polytechnical Institute in and spent the early years of his career in a variety of construction and engineering posts in Sverdlovsk, moving from project manager to top leadership positions in the building administration.
He joined the CPSU in and in became chief of the Construction Department of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Party Committee (obkom ). In he was appointed industry se