Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-592) and index.
Self-reliance -- Scripts -- Only forward -- A boss with a difference -- Megalopolis -- The mutineer -- The Yeltsin phenomenon -- Birth of a nation -- A great leap outward -- Resistances -- Falling apart, holding together -- Boris Agonistes -- Governing the state -- Renconnecting -- Autumn of a president -- Endgame -- Aftermath -- Coda: legacies of an event-shaping man