The View from the Kremlin (first edition)

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is arguably today the single most important politician in the world. At crucial moments over the last three years he has effectively stood alone against those keen to plunge Russia back into the darkness from which she has only recently begun to emerge.

In this, his own astonishingly forthright personal account of the political and economic crises that have beset his country over the last three years, Yeltsin reveals how close he came to losing control, how he regards his achievements, his opponents and his allies. He is completely frank, for example, about his reasons for using force to save democracy in 1993. His narration of how the putschists were foiled, like that of many other key incidents in the book, is completely gripping. At its end he assesses what remains to be done to make Russia safe for its people to live their lives as they wish. 

The View from the Kremlin gives us history as it is really made. It is a rare portrait of a nation - and a leader - in peril, in flux and in the raw.