Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

Madeleine Leroyer
2021-11-18


7.7
52 min

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?

Cast

Name Character Team
Boris Yeltsin Self (archive footage) Unowned
Tatyana Yumasheva Self Unowned
Sergei Pugachev Self Unowned
Anatoly Chubais Self Unowned
Gennady Zyuganov Self (archive footage) Unowned
Alexandr Korzhakov Self Unowned
Mikhail Fridman Self Unowned
Helmut Kohl Self (archive footage) Unowned
Michel Camdessus Self Unowned
Mikhail Gorbachev Self (archive footage) Unowned
Vladimir Zhirinovsky Self (archive footage) Unowned
Grigoriy Yavlinskiy Self (archive footage) Unowned
Alexander Lebed Self (archive footage) Unowned
Yury Vlasov Self (archive footage) Unowned
Boris Berezovsky Self (archive footage) Unowned
Vladimir Gusinsky Self (archive footage) Unowned
Dick Morris Self Unowned
Bill Clinton Self (archive footage) Unowned
Richard Dresner Self (archive footage) Unowned
Joe Shumate Self (archive footage) Unowned
Anatoly Kulikov Self Unowned
George Gorton Self (archive footage) Unowned
Naina Yeltsina Self (archive footage) Unowned
Vladimir Putin Self (archive footage) Unowned