If, however, you are interested in glimpsing Gorbachev`s character and peeking at the way his mind works, then ”The August Coup” has a great deal to offer. Gorbachev wrote the book about a ...

Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union ...

For six long years, Mikhail S ... by a short-lived August coup d’etat by hard-liners and for good at the end of the year when the Soviet Union formally disbanded. Gorbachev never lost the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev ... point for Gorbachev came in August 1991, when hard-line Communists arrested him while he was vacationing at his Crimean dacha, and tried to mount a coup.

On August 30, when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who is credited with ending ... between the August coup and the meeting of the leaders of the Soviet republics in Almaty on December 21, 1991 ...

President Mikhail Gorbachev ... gallery 19 August 1991: a defiant Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, clenches a fist to his supporters from the Russian Federation building as the coup begins ...

Mikhail Gorbachev on studying Stalin and coming ... That came later, after he had lost control, and an attempted hardline coup on 20 August 1991 led to the end of the Soviet Union.

A key player in the history of the 20 th century, Mikhail Sergeyevich ... was scheduled for the end of August. The coup would have to be carried out quickly. Gorbachev and his family were on ...

AUGUST, in eastern Europe ... and the Soviet coup of 1991, where hardliners locked up Mikhail Gorbachev to preserve the Soviet Union, but ended up giving Boris Yeltsin the power to destroy ...

Mikhail Gorbachev saw ... He died at the age of 91 on August 30, according to Russian news outlets. As president, Gorbachev himself was a target of a failed coup d'etat during the final months ...

It’s hard to sift history’s judgment from the hot takes, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s telegram of condolence on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev does little to help.

Mikhail Gorbachev saw the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot as a dark omen for the US. The events "called into question the future fate of the United States," he told Russian media. Gorbachev, the last ...