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Gorbachev and Yeltsin as leaders / George W. Breslauer.

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Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders also compares these men with Khrushchev and Brezhnev, yielding new insight into the nature of Soviet and post-Soviet politics and into the dynamics of "transformational" leadership more generally. The book is an important contribution to the analysis and ev...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Breslauer, George W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, > 1931-2022.
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, > 1931-2007.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, > 1931-2022
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, > 1931-2007
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-
Politics and government
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union
Since 1985
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Leadership strategies in Soviet and post-Soviet politics
  • Gorbachev and Yeltsin : personalities and beliefs
  • Rise of Gorbachev
  • Gorbachev ascendant
  • Gorbachev on the political defensive
  • Yeltsin versus Gorbachev
  • Yeltsin ascendant
  • Yeltsin on the political defensive
  • Yeltsin lashes out : the invasion of Chechnya (December 1994)
  • Yeltsin's many last hurrahs
  • Explaining leaders' choices, 1985-1999
  • Criteria for the evaluation of transformational leaders
  • Evaluating Gorbachev as leader
  • Evaluating Yeltsin as leader.

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