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Headings: Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
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Contents
Early life
Childhood: 1931–1948
University and career in construction: 1949–1960
Early membership of the Communist Party: 1960–1975
First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Oblast: 1976–1985
Relocation to Moscow
Head of the Moscow Gorkom: 1985
Resignation: 1987
President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
1991 presidential election
President of the Russian Federation
Yeltsin's first term
Radical reforms
Confrontation with parliament
Chechnya
Norwegian rocket incident
Privatization and the rise of "the oligarchs"
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
1996 presidential election
Yeltsin's second term
Attempted 1999 impeachment
Mabetex corruption
Resignation
Electoral history
Illness and suspected alcoholism
Life after resignation
Death and funeral
Ideology
Personal life
Reception and legacy
Honors and awards
Russian and Soviet
Foreign awards
Departmental awards
Religious awards
Titles
Bibliography
See also
Notes
References
Sources and further reading
External links

Content: 1985
2.2 Resignation: 1987
3 President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
3.1 1991 presidential election
4 President of the Russian Federation
4.1 Yeltsin's first term
4.1.1 Radical reforms
4.1.2 Confrontation with parliament
4.1.3 Chechnya
4.1.4 Norwegian rocket incident
4.1.5 Privatization and the rise of "the oligarchs"
4.1.6 Korean Air Lines Flight 007
4.1.7 1996 presidential election
4.2 Yeltsin's second term
4.2.1 Attempted 1999 impeachment
4.2.2 Mabetex corruption
4.2.3 Resignation
5 Electoral history
6 Illness and suspected alcoholism
7 Life after resignation
8 Death and funeral
9 Ideology
10 Personal life
11 Reception and legacy
11.1 Honors and awards
12 Bibliography
13 See also
14 Notes
15 References
15.1 Sources and further reading
16 External links
Early life
Childhood: 1931–1948
Boris Yeltsin was born on 1 February 1931 in the village of Butka, Talitsky District, Sverdlovsk, then in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union. His family, who were ethnic Russians, had lived in this area of the Urals since at least the eighteenth century. His father, Nikolai Yeltsin, had married his mother, Klavdiya Vasilyevna Starygina, in 1928. Yeltsin always remained closer to his mother than his father; the latter beat both his wife and children on various occasions. Yeltsin (second from left) with childhood friends
The Soviet Union was then under the rule of Joseph Stalin, who led the one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Seeking to convert the country into a socialist society according to Marxist–Leninist doctrine, in the late 1920s Stalin's government had initiated a project of mass rural collectivisation coupled with dekulakization. As a prosperous farmer, Yeltsin's paternal grandfather, Ignatii, was accused of being a " kulak " in 1930.