Gorbachev and Yeltsin as leaders

The main task of his research, George Breslauer sees a detailed consideration of the leading style of M. S. Gorbachev and B. N. Yeltsin. The author focuses on their public rhetoric, considering the extensive material of performances and memoirs: Yeltsin and Gorbachev appear as leaders who lead a continuous political dialogue with associates and opponents within the country and abroad. The author analyzes the conditionality of the choice of a particular strategy at different moments of the political career of each of the leaders, the circumstances that allowed them to succeed, and the reasons why their actions were met - or did not meet are support from the political hystblem and ordinary citizens, and also evaluates the assessment Their political successes and failures