DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Elite, Liberal Democracy, Planned Economy
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Russia for the first time had elected presidents (yeltsin putin: huntington: taking over the presidency two times, could prove true democracy, gorbachev yeltsin putin. The same people continued their old habits. Started with a peaceful revolution" with yeltsin as the national leader: he challenged the coup and called the public to protest, to prevent a turnback of reforms. 1993: the parliament opposed yeltsin, there was a power struggle, they tried to dissolve/impeach each other: yeltsin was too authoritarian according to the parliament. Parliament refused to leave the building, yeltsin used the army to end the rebellion of the parliament. It gave yeltsin room to implement his new constitution and rules: big part of the public was against the measures that yeltsin wanted to implement. Yeltsin was in 1991 the symbol of protection of the parliament and democracy, but now in 1993 he attacked the parliament and maybe even the democracy.
