Moscow’s mayor, Gavriil Popov, has claimed that there were really only two options for how to break up the centrally controlled economy: “Property can be divided among all members of society, or the best pieces can be given to the leaders … . In a word, there’s the democratic approach, and there’s the nomenklatura, apparatchik approach.”17 Yeltsin took the latter approach—and he was in a hurry.
