Title: Boris Yeltsin Biography - life, family, parents, wife, school, young, information, born, time, year
Headings: Boris Yeltsin Biography
Boris Yeltsin Biography
Early life
A party leader in Moscow
President of the Republic of Russia
A new era
Losing power
Stepping down
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Content: Eight other republics joined the CIS, while four  republics became completely independent. Gorbachev resigned before  year's end, and as of January 1, 1992, the Soviet Union no longer  existed. Yeltsin, who in 1987 had been dismissed from the Soviet  leadership, became the head of post-Soviet Russia, the largest of the  Soviet successor states. A new era
Yeltsin began a new chapter in 1992 as president of independent Russia. He undertook an ambitious program of economic reform with mixed results. Businesses were returned to the private sector but the economy began to  crumble. Yeltsin's policies were frequently challenged during  1992, ending in a major showdown with the Russian parliament in December  1992. Yeltsin dissolved parliament in September 1993 and a sit-in  (peaceful protest) began. In early October 1993, a confrontation  occurred, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries as well as  considerable damage to several Moscow landmarks. The sit-in was  eventually stopped.