Yeltsin was spurned by the Communist Party on Tuesday when it picked candidates to fill 100 reserved seats in the governing body. Officials who hold the rank of minister, as Yeltsin does, can only ...

Yeltsin stirred up a moribund congress last week ago by warning that, unless it changes, the Soviet party is doomed to follow its Eastern European comrades to ”historic defeat.” ...

Zyuganov, 51, a former Communist Party bureaucrat who has called for the reversal of reforms such as the privatization of state-run industries, was nominated at a party congress in Moscow where ...

The players: Boris Yeltsin, 62, was brought to Moscow in 1985 because he backed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, but he broke with the Communist Party five years later after calling for ...

July 12, 1990 — Quit the Communist Party in moment of high drama, walking out of a party congress. June 12, 1991 — Won Russia's first popular presidential election.

May 1990 - The Russian Federation's Congress of People's Deputies, the republic's parliament, elects Yeltsin as chairman. June 1990 - Yeltsin quits the Communist Party.

July 1990: Yeltsin terminates his Communist Party membership. June 1990: The Russian Republic declares its sovereignty within the Soviet Union.

A man of great ambition and periodic vision, Yeltsin wrenched his country out of more than seven decades of socialist economic planning and Communist Party rule. He freed the Soviet Union’s ...

I WILL NEVER FORGET the first time I saw Boris Yeltsin in person. It was in Dallas in September 1989--slightly less than two years after he was fired from his job as Moscow's chief Communist Party ...