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Russia at the Barricades - Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 Coup (Hardcover, New)
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Russia at the Barricades - Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 Coup (Hardcover, New)
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On August 19, 1991, eight high-ranking Soviet officials took over
the government of the USSR and proclaimed themselves its new
rulers. Less than seventy-two hours later, their coup had
collapsed, but it would change the course of history in a way that
no one - certainly not the plotters themselves - could have
foreseen. The editor of this volume, who witnessed these momentous
events, have assembled firsthand accounts of the attempted coup.
They include testimonies from "junta" members and military
officers, resistance leaders and ordinary citizens, Muscovites and
residents of other locales, Russian and foreign journalists,
foreign visitors and returning emigres, as well as Mikhail
Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Key documents and photographs
complement the individual accounts. The provocative introduction to
the volume places the August events in the larger context - from
the early days of perestroika and glasnost to the second
confrontation at the White House, in October 1993.
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