It supplies an account of the former Politburo member, Boris
Yeltsin--his rise to the presidency and the rifts with his parliamentary
opponents, which led to the attack on the Russian White House on October
1993. There are portraits of Gavril Popov, the former mayor of Moscow
and Vladimir Zhironovsky, the ultra-nationalist demagogue. The book
provides analysis of the new Russia and its attempts to develop modern
capitalism.