It was only after Mikhail Gorbachev summoned Yeltsin to Moscow in 1985 that he began to differentiate himself from dozens of other senior party apparatchiks. Sensing the bitter frustration of Moscow’s middle class-in-waiting, Yeltsin quickly gained a reputation as a harsh, if not always coherent, critic of the party’s old guard.
直到戈尔巴乔夫1985年将叶利钦调到莫斯科以后，叶利钦才开始表现出与苏共那些老派高官的不同。叶利钦感受到了莫斯科那些有望成为中产阶级的人的痛苦绝望，并迅速奠定了苏共老卫士强烈批判者的声誉，虽然立场并不总是那么一致。