Volume 37, Number 8 · May 17, 1990
The Communist Party Cut-Up
By David Remnick
Against the Grain: An Autobiography
by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Michael Glenny
Summit Books, 263 pp., $19.95
At times, Boris Yeltsin can seem the Huey and Earl Long of Soviet politics, a theatrical populist.Relying on a politics of resentment, Yeltsin has won an angry public's affection. For him no statement, no amount of bombast, is beyond belief or tolerance. In interviews he will suggest with a burlesque arch of the brow that the KGB may yet kill him with a high-frequency ray gun that will stun his heart. 'A few seconds and it's all over.'
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