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August Coup (1991)
On the Cold War map as “The August Coup”
19–21 Aug 1991 — Hardliners seize Gorbachev and send tanks into Moscow; Yeltsin climbs one outside the parliament. The army refuses to fire, the coup dissolves in 60 hours — and takes the union with it.
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- End of the Cold War (chapter 12 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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- Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
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