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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.
Coup leader Vice-President Gennadi Yanayev returns to the Kremlin August 21, 19:19: U.S. President George H. W. Bush talks with Gorbachev by telephone. August 21, 20:13: Gorbachev is announced to rule the Soviet Union again. August 21, 20:17: Four coup leaders are located at Gorbachev's summer villa in Crimea.
This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states.
The following lists events that happened during 1991 in the Soviet Union and Russia.. The Soviet Union had a transitional government in 1991, during the fall of communism.Every republic in the union had growing nationalism until Christmas of 1991 when Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Soviet Union, abandoned the Union at ...
The coup leaders also neglected to jam foreign news broadcasts, so many Muscovites watched it unfold live on CNN. Even the isolated Gorbachev was able to stay abreast of developments by tuning into the BBC World Service on a small transistor radio. [124] After three days, on 21 August 1991, the coup collapsed.
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.
January 6–7, 1991: A coup attempt against Ertha Pascal-Trouillot by Roger Lafontant failed. September 30, 1991: Raoul Cédras overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide. December 17, 2001: A coup attempt against Jean-Bertrand Aristide by ex-soldiers failed. February 5–29, 2004: President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted during his second term.
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