The Yeltsin era (November 1991 to December 1999)

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Moscow Diary: Restoring Socialism
By Mike Davidow, People's Weekly World, 25 February 1995. The report of Valentin Kuptsev, first deputy of the Central Committee CPRF, to the Third Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) was a confident, sober and self-critical look at the state of the Party's organization and activity.
Yeltsin drives toward police state
By Mike Davidow, People's Weekly World, 14 January 1995. The Yeltsin-Chernomyrdin regime is trying to force capitalism it down Russia's throat. The tragic result is economic chaos, runaway sadistic crime, moral decay, rapid ‘progress’ to a police state.
Russian Communist Party Congress
By Mike Davidow, People's Weekly World, 28 January 1995. Party congress to discuss and adopt the Party program in a new situation where political, economic and national crises are all coming to a head.
Moscow Dairy: Time for Solidarity
By Mike Davidow, People's Weekly World, 3 June 1995. Fear that Yeltsin will repeat his dictatorial dissolution of the Supreme Soviet as he did in September 1993.
Moscow Diary: Russian Disasters: Natural & Unnatural
By Mike Davidow, People's Weekly World, 10 June 1995. Comparison of how Soviet and post-Soviet Russian regimes responded to earthquake disasters.
Moscow Diary: The Ideological Struggle
By Mike Davidow, People's Weekly World, 17 June 1995. The struggle for control over the media.
Declaration of the 30th Congress of the Union of Communist Parties—CPSU
Moscow
Moscow, 2 July 1995. An unofficial translation, Guardian. The 30th Congress of the Union of Communist Parties—CPSU wishes to inform communists and citizens of the Soviet Union of its estimation of the present situation, the immediate and future perspectives and the tasks facing the communist movement.
Russia as ‘stable’ as Boris Yeltsin
By Mike Davidow, People's Weekly World, 11 November 1995. Yeltsin's health and manner of rule, and the deterioration of Russia. Coming parliamentary elections December 17.
Interview with Viktor Anpilov: Russian Communists seek united struggle
By By Bill Doares, Workers World, 22 February 1996. Interview with Viktor Anpilov, Tussian Communist Workers' Party (RKRP) secretary and Workers' Russia leader. Activity of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) in coming elections in June and the relation of the two parties.
Eyewitness Moscow: The vote breakdown
By Bill Doares, Workers World, 27 June 1996. Preliminary results of the first round of the Russian election give Boris Yeltsin a lead over Gennadi Zyuganov, president of Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) and the People's Patriotic Bloc. Alexander Lebed far behind.
How workers, nationalities voted in Russian Elections
By Bill Doares, Workers World, 4 July 1996. Post election analysis. Where the communist candidate, Gennady Zyuganov, did well.
Resolution of the Fourth Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
“On the Attitude to Russia's Ruling Political Regime”, Moscow Pravda Rossii, 8 May 1997.
Problems in the Moscow princedom
By Boris Kagarlitsky, Green Left Weekly, 15 October 1997. In place of the Moscow City Soviet forcibly disbanded by Yeltson emerged the autocracy of Mayor Yury Luzhkov that bled the provinces. This regime outlawed by the court, and there will be an election in December.
Russia at year's end
By Fred Weir, Hindustani Times, 30 December 1997. Reflections on Yeltsin's end-of-year speech. Yeltsin promises to back away from unbriddled capitalism and to be more responsive to the left opposition. But his health remains a key factor.