The literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by politicians - first-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three volumes of recollections - but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts, journalists, MPs, retired members of Gorbachevs Politburo, public figures now long forgotten, generals of special services and security service staff. Boris Minaev started working on Boris Yeltsins biography when the politician was still alive. In his work the author has used not only publicly accessible documents that have been printed or...