Boris Yeltsin: the years of government

Boris Yeltsin, whose years of government fell on the most difficult, perhaps, period in the newest Russian history, receives today the most ambiguous assessments on the part of politicians, journalists and the society itself. In this article, we will recall the main pages of "dashing nineties" in the history of our country.

President Boris Yeltsin: years of government

The collapse of the Soviet Union was a logical consequence of the Gorbachev policy, manifested in the decentralization of power both in the public sphere and in the administrative sphere in the capitals of the national republics. The Belovezhskoe Agreement, which finally and documented the peaceful divorce of the republics on the basis of comprehensive agreement and the creation of an informal friendly organization - the CIS, was signed by the Russian Federation already by Boris Yeltsin, whose years of rule were followed by this act.

The first half of the 1990s was marked by the unprecedented growth of crime, the insane inflation, the impoverishment of the people, the emergence of a new category of the population - the so-called new Russians, and with them the catastrophically numerous growth of impoverished citizens. Approximately this was the result of the first years of the new president's reign.

The logical consequence of deplorable processes was the growth of opposition sentiments in society and support for alternative political forces. Their mainstay in 1993 was the Supreme Soviet, where the Communists and nationalists concentrated. The confrontation between the opposition and the head of state was further complicated by the fact that Russian President Boris Yeltsin received tremendous powers during the 1992 shock therapy , which allowed him to legitimately dissolve the parliament. In the opinion of the parliament, the term of these powers was due to expire, since they were given only for the period of necessary decisive actions in the first two years of independence. This confrontation ended with a well-known fact: the shooting of the parliament building and the president's complete victory. Until now, this event has been awarded various assessments: for someone it was a coup d'etat, for someone resolutely solving the situation (without which the country would plunge into a long mess and the bloody chaos of political confrontations) that Boris Yeltsin realized. The years of this man's rule, among other things, are marked by the Chechen war, which still causes violent emotions in the hearts of our compatriots.

The first half of the 1990s was even more difficult for this republic than for the rest of the country: the total absence of federal control led to a decisive impoverishment of the population, increased crime, real ethnic cleansing and the formation of radical anti-government forces here. Underestimation of these forces led to the fact that instead of a quick solution to the Chechen problem, the conflict dragged on for many months, taking the lives of many conscript soldiers and provoking a comprehensive condemnation of the actions of the federal bodies. But it was the signing of a cease-fire in the form of the Khasavyurt agreements and the return of soldiers home, not least that allowed Boris Nikolayevich to win his next election in 1996.

Boris Yeltsin: years of government in the second term

Unfortunately, the Khasavyurt agreements did not bring peace to either Chechnya or the rest of Russia. They only postponed the problem, which the next president had to decide. Perhaps the most significant episode of the second term of the first president was the financial default in the country. It is difficult to judge unambiguously whether the economic policy and decrees during the reign of Yeltsin were to blame. The fact is that the state's economy directly depended on oil exports, and the fall in oil prices was the main reason for the collapse of the domestic economy.

Whatever it was, with the departure of the first president of Russia , a whole era with its disasters left, but with a laid foundation for further, albeit not so significant, positive shifts.