Boris Yeltsin's Role in the Disintegration of the Soviet Union

Boris Yeltsin's role in the disintegration of the Soviet Union included

A) working as an ally of Gorbachev to save the Communist Party by opening party institutions to electoral politics.
B) leading the old guard Communists who sought to kidnap Gorbachev and seize power in the Soviet Union in order to crush the reform movement.
C) emerging as a radical reform Communist who embraced the democratic movement and led Russia to declare independence from the Soviet Union.
D) directing the Soviet effort to quash Lithuanian claims of independence.