[DOC] [TLE] Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia [PAR] Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first 
President of the .... Yeltsin was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet 
Union (CPSU) .... On 12 July 1990, Yeltsin resigned from the CPSU in a dramatic 
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Boris Yeltsin, president of the Republic of Russia, announces his resignation 
from ... Despite his attempts at economic reform, his tenure in office saw the 
country's... [DOC] [TLE] Boris N. Yeltsin, Who Buried the U.S.S.R., Dies at 76 [PAR] Apr 25, 2007 ... Russian leader Boris Yelstin emerges from a balloting booth after casting ... had 
given the country democracy as the first elected president of Russia. ... But where 
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fellow delegates when he resigned from the Communist Party... [DOC] [TLE] Boris Yeltsin | World news | The Guardian [PAR] Apr 23, 2007 ... Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin makes a toast at an awards ceremony ... 
While Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and ... 
faltering experience in trying to create democracy in a country which had ... At its 
congress in July 1990 he stunned fellow delegates by announcing his... [DOC] [TLE] Boris Yeltsin | president of Russia | Britannica.com [PAR] Russian politician, who became president of Russia in 1990. In 1991 he became 
the first popularly elected leader in the country's history, guiding Russia through a 
stormy decade. ... stormy decade of political and economic retrenching until his 
resignation on the eve of 2000. ... In July 1990 Yeltsin quit the Communist Party. [DOC] [TLE] End of the Cold War - U.S. History in Context - Gale [PAR] Gorbachev had attempted to reform the Communist Party and create a limited ... 
Economies in Third World countries are primarily based on agriculture, with few 
..... By mid-1990, President Bush and his advisors were still debating how hard 
they ... The NATO member nations held a meeting in July 1990 to make 
additional... [DOC] [TLE] Russia's Political Future: CQR [PAR] May 3, 1996 ... Yeltsin's main challenger, Communist Party leader Gennadi A. ... Yeltsin 
immediately set his newly independent country on the road to ... than the 
president in Russia's presidential republic, the vote stunned Yeltsin and his 
supporters. ..... In December, Gorbachev resigned and the Soviet Union 
collapsed,... [DOC] [TLE] Johnson's Russia List [PAR] His dramatic. resignation from the Soviet Communist party as he walked out of its 
Congress. in July 1990 fatally wounded its already shaky authority. In the glare... [DOC] [TLE] Former Russian President Yeltsin Dies - Radio Free Europe / Radio ... [PAR] Apr 23, 2007 ... In May of 1990, Yeltsin was elected chairman of the Russian ... The following 
month Yeltsin terminated his Communist Party membership. ... the legally elected 
president of the country was deposed from power," .... On December 31, 1999, 
Yeltsin stunned the nation by announcing his immediate resignation... [DOC] [TLE] Fast Facts: Highlights of Yeltsin's Career and Life | Fox News [PAR] Apr 23, 2007 ... Highlights of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin's life and career:Feb ... July 
12, 1990  Quit the Communist Party in moment of high drama ... The coup 
collapsed, and Yeltsin emerged as country's most powerful and popular politician 
... 31, 1999  Stunned Russia and the world by resigning before his... [DOC] [TLE] PIVOT: Chapter One of RUSSIA REDUX by Gwendolyn Stewart [PAR] Imagine wandering over the largest country on earth, not in the train of a railroad, 
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Gorbachev was President of the USSR; Gorbachev was General Secretary of the 
... The members of what was now "his" Russian Communist Party made up more
... [DOC] [TLE] Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich [PAR] President of the Russian

Question: In July 1990 this Russian president stunned his country by resigning from the Communist Party
Answer: Boris Yeltsin