... economies and put on their own. These inexperienced civilians would be like fish in a tank full of sharks. With their new president Boris Yeltsin promising better times, citizens were hopeful that things would get better. They would soon find out that to get to the good times, ... ordered that the congress be disbanded (Parenti, 1997). Apparently congress wasn't gong along with all the reforms for a free market. In 1993, Yeltsin went even farther and disbanded the Russian parliament and every other elected representative body in the country, including many municipal and regional councils...

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... at home. A military coup was attempted by a group of anti-reformists. Leaders of the army, the KGB and the Interior Ministry placed Gorbachev under arrest and took over the government. Boris Yeltsin, a supporter of immediate reform, called on the people to resist the coup. Demonstrations and strikes broke out across the country and the coup collapsed. Reformists took control and the final ... ...

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