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Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed ( Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ле́бедь; 20 April 1950 – 28 April 2002) was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the Airborne Troops before running for president in the 1996 Russian presidential election. He did not win, but ...
Apr 28, 2002 · MOSCOW, Russia --With his gravelly voice, trademark broken nose and tough-talking manner, Alexander Lebed was one of the most well-known public figures in Russia.Such was the larger-than-life ...
Paperback 125 pages. $30.00. This report offers a detailed portrait of retired Russian Army Lieutenant General Aleksandr I. Lebed, who first rose to prominence in 1993 as the commander of Russia’s 14th Army in Moldova and later was appointed security advisor in 1996 by the reelected President Boris Yeltsin. Lebed, who himself finished a ...
- Benjamin S. Lambeth
- Paperback
- 1996
May 21, 2018 · LEBED, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH. (1950 – 2002), Soviet, airborne commander, Afghan veteran, commander of the Fourteenth Army, Secretary of the Russian security council, and governor of Krasnoyarsk oblast. Alexander Lebed graduated from the Ryazan Airborne School in 1973 and served in the Airborne Forces. From 1981 to 1982 he commanded an airborne ...
May 2, 2002 · The simple virtues Mr Lebed stood for, Russia turned out not to need. He made his name in 1992 as a blunt instrument of peacemaking during a brief but savage civil war between Slav- and Romanian ...
Apr 28, 2002 · Alexander Lebed: All action hero. Alexander Lebed was a popular Russian hero. Alexander Lebed was a no-nonsense Russian army general whose plain-speaking style made him a formidable politician. He was born in the southern city of Novocherkassk on April 20, 1950. He joined the army at an early age, became a battalion commander in the Soviet war ...
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Sep 1, 1998 · There are three reasons to read this autobiography: first, the smart money says that if elections were held today, Lebed would be Russia's next president. He comes across as a rather simple military man, distinctly untutored on the larger political issues he now claims to have mastered. While he is physically courageous and has a strong sense of fair play, he appears bull-like in getting a ...
