The first volume details the period 1985-1991, from Yeltsin's start as a secretary of the Sverdlovsk Communist party regional committee to the August 1991 coup that brought him to power. The second volume, due out soon, will cover the period beginning in January 1992 until the 1994-1996 Chechnyan war. The third part runs from the 1996 presidential elections until the current period.