Campaigners for democracy admired Yeltsin’s struggle against the conservatives in the politburo – especially after he was forced out of the party’s inner circle in November 1987. Determined to outbid Gorbachev as a reformer, he persuaded liberals to overcome their distrust of his provincial manners.
民主运动的倡导者敬慕叶利钦同政治局那些保守派的斗争，尤其是他在1987年十一月被挤出苏共的核心圈之后。叶利钦决心成为比戈尔巴乔夫更有魄力的改革者，因此努力劝服自由主义者消除了对他的偏狭的疑虑。他们给他上民主理论课，而他给他们出谋划策。