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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.
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, 16:13: Some coup leaders ...
The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, occurring between 19 and 21 August 1991, was an attempt by the SCSE to take control of the country from then President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. The SCSE were hard-line members of the Communist Party ( CPSU ) who were opposed to Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty he had ...
August 19 to 22— 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt; August 19 The "State Committee for the State of Emergency" created from the hardline Union-level functioners wishing to reverse the USSR's disintegration. State of emergency declared in certain regions of the country, military units and tanks entered in Moscow.
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.
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.
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The Soviet coup d'état attempt on 19 August 1991 became the spark for the so-called Chechen Revolution. [18] [23] On 21 August, the OKChN called for the overthrow of the Supreme Soviet of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. [18] [23] On 6 September 1991, OKChN squads seized the local KGB headquarters, and took over the building of the Supreme Soviet.