ANDREW FELKAY is Professor of Russian Studies at Kutztown University. Among his earlier publications are Out of Russian Orbit (Greenwood Press, 1997) and Hungary and the USSR, 1956-1988 (Greenwood Press, 1989).

• IntroductionThe Making of a RebelFrom Engineer to Party ActivistFalling from Grace and ReemergenceThe Way to the TopStruggle for PowerYeltsin Takes ControlThe Demise of the Soviet UnionYeltsin Wins a New ConstitutionYeltsin and the West--The Early YearsBacklash of the Imposed DemocracyCooling of Pro-Western PoliciesYeltsin Holds OnThe 1996 Presidential ElectionThe Struggle against NATO's ExpansionGovernment Reshuffle and Economic CrisisChallenges at Home and AbroadKosovoThe Search for a SuccessorYeltsin Had the Last WordConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

ANDREW FELKAY is Professor of Russian Studies at Kutztown University. Among his earlier publications are Out of Russian Orbit (Greenwood Press, 1997) and Hungary and the USSR, 1956-1988 (Greenwood Press, 1989).

• IntroductionThe Making of a RebelFrom Engineer to Party ActivistFalling from Grace and ReemergenceThe Way to the TopStruggle for PowerYeltsin Takes ControlThe Demise of the Soviet UnionYeltsin Wins a New ConstitutionYeltsin and the West--The Early YearsBacklash of the Imposed DemocracyCooling of Pro-Western PoliciesYeltsin Holds OnThe 1996 Presidential ElectionThe Struggle against NATO's ExpansionGovernment Reshuffle and Economic CrisisChallenges at Home and AbroadKosovoThe Search for a SuccessorYeltsin Had the Last WordConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

ANDREW FELKAY is Professor of Russian Studies at Kutztown University. Among his earlier publications are Out of Russian Orbit (Greenwood Press, 1997) and Hungary and the USSR, 1956-1988 (Greenwood Press, 1989).

• IntroductionThe Making of a RebelFrom Engineer to Party ActivistFalling from Grace and ReemergenceThe Way to the TopStruggle for PowerYeltsin Takes ControlThe Demise of the Soviet UnionYeltsin Wins a New ConstitutionYeltsin and the West--The Early YearsBacklash of the Imposed DemocracyCooling of Pro-Western PoliciesYeltsin Holds OnThe 1996 Presidential ElectionThe Struggle against NATO's ExpansionGovernment Reshuffle and Economic CrisisChallenges at Home and AbroadKosovoThe Search for a SuccessorYeltsin Had the Last WordConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex