Nation Topics - Boris Yeltsin | The Nation

The vilifying charges levelled at Russia's president by the American media could undermine rational U.S. policy-making.

Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.

Ever since 1991, Russians have been looking to the Soviet past for comfort and pride.

Five years after the death of the Russian journalist, police have arrested a central figure in the murder. But will the investigation get to the bottom of all the uncomfortable truths about Politkovskaya's murder?

Stephen F. Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives surveys a political landscape of reform, struggle and reconciliation.

Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.

A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.

The Obama administration simply cannot afford a confrontation with Russia, given the challenges we face elsewhere.

In south Florida, Joe Garcia is taking on the GOP and the Cuban exile establishment.

Five authors provide differing views of the post-glasnost era and of the failed promise of democratic reform in Russia.