鲍里斯·叶利钦

Boris Yeltsin was the first president of the Russian Federation and one of the central political figures of the post-Soviet transition. His career connects the collapse of Soviet authority, the struggle to build a new Russian state, the 1991 coup crisis, and the brutal test of force represented by the Chechen War. Yeltsin's tenure demonstrated that regime transition can intensify rather than reduce the role of coercion. His presidency was marked by an unstable overlap between democratizing rhetoric, weakened state capacity, and the return to military force when territorial authority or political survival came under threat.