Byline: STEVEN ERLANGER - New York Times
The defeated leaders of the armed uprising against President Boris N. Yeltsin may not have had a broad popular base. But the criticism leveled by these men, Alexander Rutskoi and Ruslan Khasbulatov, against Yeltsin, his policies and his embrace of one-man rule has resonated with a broad swath of Russians who regard themselves as centrists.
This broad center reacted with disgust to the motley collection of communists, ultra-nationalists, fascists, bully boys, and anti-Semites who clustered around the Parliament's cause. But while most Russians are surely relieved to have order restored, they did not stir …
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