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 …

1991 Soviet coup attempt, (August 19–21, 1991), attempt by Communist hard-liners to seize control of the Soviet Union by holding Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev captive. The plotters had little support among the broader political and military establishment, however, and the coup collapsed in a matter of days.

2009年11月13日 · The coup against Gorbachev began on August 18, led by hard-line communist elements of the Soviet government and military. The attempt was poorly planned and disorganized, however.

Despite his success in avoiding removal from office, Gorbachev’s days in power were numbered. The Soviet Union would soon cease to exist as a nation and as a Cold War threat to the …

2009年11月24日 · On August 18, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest during a coup by high-ranking members of his own government, military and police forces.

The coup of August 1991 was timed to prevent the signing of the new Union Treaty which would have fundamentally recast the relationship between the center and the republics in favor of the latter, and was scheduled for August 20.

August 20, 12:00: Over 100,000 people demonstrate against the coup in Leningrad. August 20, 14:00: Moldavia's premier Valeriu Muravschi declares his support for Yeltsin. August 20, 15:00: European Community halts all economic aid en route to the Soviet Union. August 20, 16:00

On August 24 Gorbachev resigned as CPSU general secretary but not from the party. The coup was the culmination of a conflict between the old and new political, economic, and social orders that had been under way since Gorbachev had risen to power in 1985.

2021年8月18日 · It is the Russian capital’s only memorial to the August Coup that sounded the death knell for the Soviet Union and the birth of the Russian Federation, but today is barely celebrated, even by...

2021年12月6日 · In 1991, tanks rolled down the streets of Moscow. This was the August coup, an attempt by the remaining Soviet hardliners to bring down Mikhail Gorbachev. Published: Dec 6, 2021 written by Robin Gillham, MA Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.