Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?
Directed by Madeleine Leroyer
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Boris Yeltsin
Self (archive footage)
Tatyana Yumasheva
Self
Sergei Pugachev
Self
Anatoly Chubais
Self
Gennady Zyuganov
Self (archive footage)
Alexandr Korzhakov
Self
Mikhail Fridman
Self
Helmut Kohl
Self (archive footage)
Michel Camdessus
Self
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Self (archive footage)
Grigoriy Yavlinskiy
Self (archive footage)
Alexander Lebed
Self (archive footage)
Yury Vlasov
Self (archive footage)
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