Title: How Will Boris Yeltsin Be Remembered? : NPR
Headings: How Will Boris Yeltsin Be Remembered?
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Content: These two institutions more than others, for us, that was a great, great thing in terms of our security, in terms of our prosperity. For Russians, however, he brought - he was the one that began the very difficult process of moving from a command economy to capitalism, and the very difficult process of moving from an authoritarian regime to a democratic regime, and the very difficult process of going from an empire to an independent state. And all of those things were traumatic for most citizens of Russia. So they - when they hear Boris Yeltsin, they think of that very traumatic transformational time. And, you know, it's great to think about revolutions and write about them as I do academically. But it really is not very pleasant to have to live through a revolution. And that's what happened under Boris Yeltsin. ROBERTS: So would any leader during that time have been vilified to some degree, or do you think Yeltsin had aspects that brought it on himself? Prof. MCFAUL: