boris yeltsin cold war

The testy but close relationship between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin helped define the post–Cold War world. His books include Richard Rorty’s Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century (1999), Marxism: A Post-Cold War Primer (Westview Press, 1996), and My Brother’s Road (2005). Markar Melkonian is a teacher and an author. As Mr. Yeltsin put it: "Today one might say that there has been written and drawn a new line, and crossed out all of the things that have been associated with the cold war.

They are unrepentant, and like Yeltsin, they take their marching orders from Washington. Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and U.S.-Russian Relations . Today marks the 70th anniversary of an important moment in modern history, when Germany was divided into two - into West and East - following the end of World War Two. Section one recounts how and why Yeltsin became a challenger to the So-viet ancien re´gime. Boris Yeltsin: Catalyst for the Cold War’s End 277 This chapter makes this argument in three increments. Upon his inauguration in January 1993, President Bill Clinton became the first president since Franklin Roosevelt who did not need a strategy for the Cold War—and the first since William Howard Taft who did not need a policy for the Soviet Union. Section … Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] (); 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. Section two then chronicles how and why Yelt-sin came to embrace liberal, anti-Communist ideas championed by Russia’s democratic movement, a marriage that was not inevitable.