THE CONFRONTATION OF THE PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN AND THE SUPREME SOVIET IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE (1993)
Because of the dual power of Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet in 1993, the sphere of power was a complex controversial network of relations between agents and institutions. The sphere of culture was also ideologically and economically unstable. Its hierarchy and the spiritual and material state of agents depended on the choice of the winner in the political conflict. Moreover, during the period of Perestroika the creative intelligentsia gained considerable political capital. Both Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet needed it to legitimize their power ambitions. However, in 1993 fierce controversy discredited the figures of culture not only in the eyes of each other, but also in the eyes of their audience.