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: Yeltsin led the dramatic  opposition to the coup and secured Gorbachev's return to Moscow. In the aftermath of Gorbachev's rescue, Yeltsin consolidated  (unified) his own power. Yeltsin led the movement to dissolve the  Russian parliament and outlaw the Communist Party on Russian soil. These  acts further weakened Gorbachev's power base. In the fall of 1991  Yeltsin and other republic leaders declared the independence of their  respective republics, and in December the presidents of Russia, Ukraine,  and Belarus (Belorussia) formed the Commonwealth of Independent States  (CIS), declaring they would no longer recognize the Soviet Union as of  January 1, 1992. 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.