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...Yeltsin: Hero or Opportunist? Boris Yeltsin: The Man Atop the Tank Yeltsin's Promise and Failure Russia's Maverick Boris Bounces Back Remembering Yeltsin Why Yeltsin Declared Himself Y2K Incompatible Who Should Be the Person of the Century? Boris Bribery Scandal? What Else Is New? Russia's Puppet Master Yeltsin's Fast-Break Generals Survival Of The Fittest Yeltsin Plays Roulette With Russia's Economy But Yeltsin Only Purges After He Drinks Free Fall: Russia in Crisis Surviving Yeltsin's 'Cold' Rescuing Boris The People Choose TIME Covers
...Yeltsin's political instincts were still sharp, and he raced to the scene outside of Russia's White House. He memorably climbed atop a rebel tank and urged defiance. Troops involved in the attempted power grab defected, and the putsch failed. Gorbachev returned to Moscow and, remarkably, declared that he still believed in communism. Russia was suddenly Yeltsin's. The Soviet system crumbled and by Christmas day of that year, the Soviet Union itself was finished. The era of reform had begun...
...will be more fondly remembered, as the man who turned the menacing Russian bear of Cold War fear-mongering into a warm and cuddly creature, supine, pitiable and willing to perform in exchange for scraps. And for one glorious moment in the hot summer of 1991, when he stood atop a tank in front of the Russian White House and faced down a coup...
...Yeltsin: Hero or Opportunist? Boris Yeltsin: The Man Atop the Tank Yeltsin's Promise and Failure Russia's Maverick Boris Bounces Back Remembering Yeltsin Why Yeltsin Declared Himself Y2K Incompatible Who Should Be the Person of the Century? Boris Bribery Scandal? What Else Is New? Russia's Puppet Master Yeltsin's Fast-Break Generals Survival Of The Fittest Yeltsin Plays Roulette With Russia's Economy But Yeltsin Only Purges After He Drinks Free Fall: Russia in Crisis Surviving Yeltsin's 'Cold' Rescuing Boris The People Choose TIME Covers
...control of the White House, the Russian Federation's parliamentary building and the main rallying point for pro-democracy Muscovites. When army tanks rolled up to the building on the morning of Aug. 19, Yeltsin, then the recently elected President of Russia, seized the moment. He strode outside, leapt atop an armored vehicle and delivered a speech in the fiery tradition of the old Bolsheviks whose communist heritage he was at that moment dismantling. "Soldiers, officers, generals," he boomed. "The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night...