At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union,the largest of the republics-the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic-was headed by

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Boris Yeltsin was elected as the first president of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1991, after the failed coup attempt by Soviet hardliners against Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin played a major role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Russian Federation as an independent state.

At the Time of the Collapse of the Soviet Union,the