Yeltsin 1

Question 1

POPULAR RADICAL:

1. What did Yeltsin denounce and advocate at the 27th Party Congress 1986?
   - Why was he fired from the CP in 1987?
2. When did he next attack Party Conservatives?
   - Who did this make him popular with?
3. What % of the Moscow vote did he gain in the 1989 Soviet elections?

Answer 1

1. The privileges of CP officials, advocated more focus on equality.
   - For publicly attacking communists who opposed reforms.
2. 1988, 19th Party Congress.
   - Soviet ppl who hated officials’ privileges.
3. 89%.

Question 2

YELTSIN IN 1990:

1. What did Yeltsin become in May 1990?
2. What did he move to establish?
3. What did he do in July 1990?
   - As a result, party membership dropped by how much?
   - What did party popularity drop to? (%).

Answer 2

1. Chair of the Russian Congress of People’s Deputies.
2. Russian Army independent from Soviet army.
3. Publicly left the CP.
   - 3m.
   - Under 20%.

Question 3

YELTSIN AND NATIONALISM:

1. What was Yeltsin elected as in June 1991?
2. What did Yeltsin embrace in both Russia and the republics?
3. In 1991, what did he support?

Answer 3

1. Russian President.
2. Growth of nationalism.
3. Republics’ declarations of independence.