Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

Name: Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
Director: Madeleine Leroyer
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2021-11-18
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Boris Yeltsin, Tatyana Yumasheva, Sergei Pugachev, Anatoly Chubais, Gennady Zyuganov

Directed by Madeleine Leroyer

Documentary

History TV Movie

20210h 52m7.7

Overview

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?