The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Putsch or August Coup ( Avgustovsky Putch), was a coup d'état attempt by a group of members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were opposed to Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he had negotiated which decentralised much of the central government's power to the republics. They were opposed, mainly in Moscow, by a short but effective campaign of civil resistance. Although the coup collapsed in only two days and Gorbachev returned to office, the event is widely reckoned as the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Before August was out, the CPS
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| - The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Putsch or August Coup ( Avgustovsky Putch), was a coup d'état attempt by a group of members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were opposed to Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he had negotiated which decentralised much of the central government's power to the republics. They were opposed, mainly in Moscow, by a short but effective campaign of civil resistance. Although the coup collapsed in only two days and Gorbachev returned to office, the event is widely reckoned as the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Before August was out, the CPS
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| - the Revolutions of 1989, Cold War, and Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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| Commander
| - Boris Yeltsin
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Gennady Yanayev
- Ivan Silayev
- Dmitry Yazov
- Konstantin Kobets
- Vladimir Kryuchkov
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| Result
| - Surrender of the GKChP
*Failure of the Union of Sovereign States proposal
*Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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- United States
- Libya
- Serbia
- European Parliament
- PLO
- Transnistria
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* Communist Party of the Soviet Union
*Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union
*Intermovements
International support:
- Azerbaijan SSR
- Defecting Soviet Army personnel
- International support:
- Republics against the coup:
- State Committee of the State of Emergency
- Russian SFSR:
*Defenders of the White House
*Supreme Soviet of Russia
*President of Russia
*Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR
Anti-Communist demonstrators in union republics
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| Conflict
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- August Coup/August Putsch
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| - The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Putsch or August Coup ( Avgustovsky Putch), was a coup d'état attempt by a group of members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were opposed to Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he had negotiated which decentralised much of the central government's power to the republics. They were opposed, mainly in Moscow, by a short but effective campaign of civil resistance. Although the coup collapsed in only two days and Gorbachev returned to office, the event is widely reckoned as the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Before August was out, the CPSU had effectively ceased to exist, and within eight months, the Soviet Union was no more.
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