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1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
attempted coup d'état in the USSR against Mikhail Gorbachev's government in August 1991
Details
- Instance of
- attempted coup d'état, military coup
- Subclass of
- coup d'état
- Start time
- 19 August 1991
- End time
- 21 August 1991
- Part of
- Revolutions of 1989
- Location
- Moscow
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Participants
- State Committee on the State of Emergency, Gennady Yanayev, Dmitry Yazov, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Valentin Pavlov, Boris Pugo, Oleg Baklanov, Vasily Starodubtsev, Ayaz Mutallibov, Qahhor Mahkamov, Saparmyrat Nyýazow
- different from
- 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
- named after
- August 1991
- time period
- August 1991
- topic's main category
- Category:1991 Soviet coup attempt
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