>>> Chris Doss
Entry into political life In the late 1980s, Khasbulatov began to work closely with rising maverick Communist Boris Yeltsin. He was elected to the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies in 1990. He followed Yeltsin in the successful resistance to the putsch attempt in 1991. He quit the Communist Party in August 1991, and on 29 October 1991 he was elected speaker of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.
Role in the 1993 Constitutional Crisis While Khasbulatov had been an ally of Yeltsin in this period, the two drifted apart following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. During the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Khasbulatov (along with former Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoy) led the Russian Supreme Soviet in its power struggle with the president, which ended with Yeltsin's violent assault on and subsequent dissolution of the parliament in October 1993.
^^^^ CB: What's he teach now ? The dissolution of the SU was a mistake or not ?