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?
Борис Ельцин
as Self (archive footage)
Tatyana Yumasheva
as Self
Sergei Pugachev
as Self
Anatoly Chubais
as Self
Gennady Zyuganov
as Self (archive footage)
Alexandr Korzhakov
as Self
Mikhail Fridman
as Self
Helmut Kohl
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Camdessus
as Self
Михаил Горбачёв
as Self (archive footage)
Владимир Жириновский
as Self (archive footage)
Grigoriy Yavlinskiy
as Self (archive footage)
