On 4 March 1990, at the elections to the RSFSR Congress of People’s Deputies, Yeltsin ran a campaign on his home turf of Sverdlovsk in the Urals and won with a 70 percent majority. He immediately traveled to Western Europe on a book tour. In Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, and France the elites received him with guarded curiosity, as a nationalist demagogue without a positive program.
