Boris Yel'Tsin and the Russian Revolution of 1991

22 DONALD W. TREADGOLD (Seattle, WA, USA) BORIS YEL'TSIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1991 The Historical Context: How do current events in Russia relate to the upheavals of the past? The English Revolution of the seventeenth century, the French Revolution of the eighteenth century and the Russian Revolution of this century were attempts to uproot long-existing systems, not to undo any particular event or series of events from their countries' history. But the chief characteristic of the Russian Revolution of 1991 was its aim to reverse the events of October 1917 and the system that emerged from it, without

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