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Russia looks West -- and East Yeltsin's struggle reflects a centuries-old battle
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Fred Kaplan is the Globe's Moscow bureau chief.
MOSCOW -- The rancorous clash between President Boris Yeltsin
and the Russian Congress of People's Deputies, which has thrown all
politics here into turmoil, is not merely a struggle over booty or
power or even the future of economic reform -- though it is all of
those things.
It is also, perhaps more deeply, a struggle over the identity of
Russia itself.
"Confrontation between communists and democrats has given way to
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