Boris Yeltsin: A political Biography

London: Weidenfelf & Nicolson , 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. London: Weidenfelf & Nicolson , 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardback. 1st edition. Very Good/Very Good. Translated from the Russian by David Gurevich, this is the first full biography of Boris Yeltsin, and a rare glimpse inside the Soviet power structure, by two acclaimed ex-Soviet journalists. Few political leaders have so electrified the world in recent years as Yeltsin: the first Kremlin dissident and the first democratically elected leader in Russia's thousand-year history. Even before the abortive coup of August 1991, he was constantly in the news for his history-making moves, his battles with Gorbachev and his flamboyant personal life. In part political thriller, in part cutting-edge analysis, this is the book that must be read to understand what Yeltsin and the Russian Commonwealth have in store for us. Size, 24 x 16cm, 320 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, very good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Exceptional condition for ex-library example.