Economic Collapse Gives Russians Some Reason to be Unhappy With Boris Yeltsin

The NYT ran an article on the construction of a monument to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The piece notes that Yeltsin is not very popular, and therefore there is little interest in the monument, however it never gives much explanation for his unpopularity.

Russia's economy suffered one of the worst collapses in history during the Yeltsin years. According to the Penn World Tables, Russia's economy contracted by more than 40 percent between 1990 and 1998, the years in which Yeltsin h...