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The 1991 Soviet coup attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the CPSU at the time.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
Coup leaders flee Moscow. August 21, 13:29: Soviet Russian Parliament gives mandate to Yeltsin to arrest the coup leaders. August 21, 13:39: Military cadre agree to pull all troops from Moscow. August 21, 14:59: Coup leaders escape to Crimea. August 21, 15:20: Ministry of Defense announces that all troops are pulled out back to bases. August 21 ...
Anti-Party Group coup attempt in the Soviet Union: A group of leaders within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who would later be dubbed the "anti-party group" by Premier Nikita Khrushchev, unsuccessfully attempted to depose Khrushchev as General Secretary of the Party. Overthrow of provisional president Daniel Fignolé in Haiti.
1991 1991 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt: Government of the Soviet Union Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Supreme Soviet; Council of Ministers; State Committee on the State of Emergency. Communist Party; KGB; 1991 1994 Djiboutian Civil War Djibouti France: Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy: 1991 1993 Georgian Civil ...
The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War (1994), In-depth scholarly history, 1981 to 1991, online; Glantz, Mary E. FDR and the Soviet Union: the President's battles over foreign policy (2005). Kennan, George F. Russia Leaves the War: Soviet American Relations 1917–1920 (1956). LaFeber, Walter.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (2nd ed. Johns Hopkins UP ...
The Soviet Union would set the ground for a coup. They encouraged the "Revolutionary Union of Youth" movement, and educated many of them at Communist University of the Toilers of the East. In January 1929, five youths educated at the school would launch a coup with Soviet support and depose Kuular, imprisoning and later executing him.