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Introduction: Coming Apart: Russia After Yeltsin
Section: MODERN THOUGHT / COMING APART: RUSSIA AFTER YELTSIN
Author: Editor
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/1999
Size: 503 Words, 3,037 Characters

If history credits President Reagan with opening the Soviet Union, it may well judge President Clinton as the one who lost Russia.

In a 1992 campaign speech before the Foreign Policy Association, would-be president Bill Clinton tried to allay the Washington establishment's doubts about whether he was big enough to occupy the Oval Office. The Russian peo...


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... No one can know the future. But some clues may be found in scrutinizing Russia's present crisis and inquiring into what the various credible contenders might do.

This month Russian-born scholar Dmitry Shlapentokh takes a hard look at one: Gen. Alexander Lebed, the current governor of Siberia and former Afghanistan war hero who thinks he's been called to lead Russia into the next century.



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