Labels:text | human face | man | screenshot | person | clothing | poster OCR: THE FALL OF COMMUNISM LEADERS OVERVIEW GORBACHEV HAVEL SOVIET UNION WALESA EASTERN EUROPE YELTSIN LEADERS Boris Yeltsin, free market reformer of post-Soviet Russia BORIS YELTSIN (1931- ) Yeltsin vigorously campaigned for the breakup of the Soviet Union, and built up a power base within the Russian Republic. Although his free market reforms received Western support, he then faced and failed to solve a succession of economic and social problems. CHRONOLOGY