Boris yeltsin and mikhail gorbachev biography

Why did boris yeltsin resign

Freedom is like that. He graduated from Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk, with a qualification in construction. He became a chief engineer within Sverdlovsk. Yeltsin joined the Communist party in , and by had become well connected, receiving the Order of Lenin medal and becoming a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in During the leadership of President Gorbachev , Yeltsin became a close supporter of the reform movement Perestroika and Glasnost , initiated by Gorbachev.

However, as Gorbachev became increasingly isolated towards the end of his leadership, Yeltsin emerged as a key opponent — arguing for a more radical reform and shock approach to move the Soviet Union to a free market economy. Yeltsin resigned from the Politburo in and from the Communist party in A few months later on 18 August , a coup took place by hard-line Communists who were opposed to Perestroika.

Gorbachev was taken from Moscow to the Crimea. At this point, Yeltsin rushed to Moscow and famously defied the coup plotters, at one point taking to a tank and making a speech to defend democracy and reforms. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.