Yeltsin Historiography

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Structuralist view of Yeltsin

Stephen Kotkin – USSR collapsed because economy imploded; politics followed.

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Intentionalist views

Archie Brown – Reforms destabilised brittle system (extends to Gorbachev, but relevant for Yeltsin’s agency).

Robert Service – Collapse not inevitable, but Yeltsin’s choices accelerated it.

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Revisionist perspectives on Yeltsin politics

Richard Sakwa – Yeltsin built a “super-presidency” but hollowed out democracy.

David Remnick – Yeltsin embodied promise and tragedy of Russian democracy, undermined by corruption.

Lilia Shevtsova – By 2000, Russia a “managed democracy” paving way for Putin.

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Revisionist view of Yeltsin’s economics

Martin McCauley – Shock therapy created oligarchs + inequality, destroying faith in reform.