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The author of this study shows how, with Boris Yeltsin struggling to maintain his health, the Kremlin elite were plotting his successor while the most popular man in Russian politics was outside the Kremlin. He is General Alexander Lebed, the gruff Cossack whom Yeltsin first appointed and then removed as Russia's defence and security supremo. A hero of the Afghan war and the man who brought 'peace' to Chechnya, he was ignominiously sacked by Yeltsin in 1996 after a bitter power struggle in the Kremlin.
But he was still the man most Russians would like to be President, and was also a politician whose unpredictable views on Russia's policy towards its neighbours and NATO expansion worried western security analysts. Harold Elletson, a former Member of Parliament, had access to General Lebed and his team, to the Chechen rebels with whom Lebed negotiated a ceasefire, and to Russian political sources.
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