In this capacity, he was a principled opponent of Gaidar's Russia's Choice and its successors in the parliament, such as the Union of Rightist Forces.
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With the launching of the 'shock therapy' reforms by Yeltsin and Gaidar in January 1992, Yavlinsky became an outspoken critic of these policies, emphasizing differences between his and Gaidar's reforms program (such as the sequencing of privatization vs. liberalization of prices and the applicability of his program to the entire Soviet Union).
Gaidar | Yegor Gaidar |
The novel had success with the young readership and was met with favourably in the press, natably in Alexander Fadeev's large article "The Books of Gaidar", published on January 29, 1933, in Literaturnaya Gazeta.
Gaidar Gadzhiyev was a Russian General and commandant of the Urus-Martan military district in Chechnya, who was killed by a young local woman Ayza Gazuyeva.
On June 14, 1940, Gaidar wrote in a diary: "Today 'Duncan' got started, a small novel. The war raging all over the world - there's no more Norway, Holland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium. The Germans are approaching Paris, and Italy joined the war one of these days."