title: Chapter Five The 1990s, Yeltsin’s decade
abstract: Chapter Five The 1990s, Yeltsin's decadeThe Russian Federation: consolidation of powerThe disintegration of the Soviet Union proved that the stage in Russia's history which started in November 1917 was not a historical regularity, but a full-scale tragedy caused by a constellation of different factors. 516 For the communities inhabiting the territory of the former Russian Empire and thereafter controlled by the Bolsheviks, this tragedy lasted for over seventy years, and somewhat shorter in the B