Volume 48, Number 7 · April 26, 2001
Founding Father
By Robert Cottrell
My Six Years with Gorbachev
Anatoly S. Chernyaev, translated from the Russian and edited by Robert D. English and Elizabeth Tucker
Pennsylvania State University Press, 437 pp., $32.50
The act of resigning from supreme office was a novelty introduced to Russian politics, under some duress, by Mikhail Gorbachev. His example having been followed nine years later by Boris Yeltsin, Russia has been able to contain for the past fifteen months the presence of two past leaders of the nation, and one incumbent, alive at the same time. The overlap may be without precedent in all Russian history.
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