Yeltsinism noun3 •the political and economic policies of Boris Yeltsin, after he became the effective ruler of Russia following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 •the outward appearance of democracy, while actually concentrating power in a form of authoritarianism •the economic and social chaos as a result of the decline of the authority of the Russian stateAll the while, a bogeyman served him well—not a return to communism, Yeltsin’s scarecrow, but the chaos of Yeltsinism. — 2015