Book: The Regime Of Boris Yeltsin

Purely practical to organize elections in the Republic, where they were still hostilities, the population was dispersed and most people were outside, it was difficult. However, this problem was solved easily. The CEC said that the Federal troops stationed in Chechnya will be there to vote. Began to understand the arrogance of the Moscow leaders - they agreed to replace the stubborn voices of the Chechens by the votes of Federal soldiers.

In the period from 1991 to September 1993 Russia for the first time received political structure in which there were elements balances and the government itself was demonopolized. There was an independent Parliament and the constitutional court. However, it soon appeared that the division of power occurred before the arising of the ruling groups have learned to live in conditions of pluralism, before they learned to negotiate.
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Played its role and ambitions of the leaders of the Parliament. The mentality of the main actors was similar: they are characterized by the desire for monopoly of power and inability to dialogue. The personal qualities of leaders and their advisers who could work in a confrontational mode of thinking and activities have had a huge impact on the course of the struggle and its completion.

... how many times getting into a difficult situation, the reformers consoled society: it's tomorrow will be better. Faith in the traditional "Avos" was almost a leitmotif of the activities of the Russian reformers.

Moreover, like President Yeltsin, the liberal technocrats responsible for what, using reformist rhetoric and at the same time engaging in conduct not always reformist course, they thereby discredited in Russia, the idea of liberal democracy.

Those who remember the glorious Soviet history knows that this position ["responsible agriculture"] were always appointed to those who wanted to get rid of, because the "pull" of Soviet agriculture was impossible. Of course, all Moscow was laughing, having heard of the appointment.