ABSTRACT
The breakdown of constitutional bargaining in the summer of 1993 was the point at which the course of these negotiations was set: neither the congressional leadership nor President Yeltsin would again negotiate directly with each other over the draft of the new Constitution. That Yeltsin’s preference for a strong presidency would predominate was established by a display of force on the streets of Moscow, as both parliamentary militias and presidential forces fought for control of strategic points within the city: and Yeltsin’s victory did enable him achieve a constitutional settlement that granted most of what he wanted and built on the work of the Constitutional Convention he established in 1993.
