An autobiographical account of Yeltsin's second term as president of Russia, including his personal opinions on such world leaders as Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, and Jacques Chirac. (view table of contents)

In his new memoir, Russia's first democratically elected President reflects on a decade of leadship, decisions, and crucial events, from the coup of 1991 to his first showdown with Parliament in 1993, and Chechnya, in addition to commenting on politics in general, his family, his relationship with Bill Clinton, and how he wants history to remember him. Simultaneous.

The Russian president provides a provocative inside account of the fall of Soviet communism and Russia's turbulent and difficult journey toward democracy. 75,000 first printing.

An hour-by-hour record of the three-day communist coup that began on August 19, 1991 in Moscow is made up of the press releases and news dispatches from the Russian Information Agency and Postfactum and is accompanied by an introduction by Boris Yeltsin.

Soviet politician and opposition leader Boris Yeltsin discusses his early life, political career, family, rise to power in the Communist party, relationship with Gorbachev, and the inner workings of Soviet politics