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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WATCH: In August 1991, a group of Soviet hard-liners locked Mikhail Gorbachev up in his ... "We have given up pretending to have a monopoly on truth,” Gorbachev said a few weeks after that ...

By August 21, the coup had collapsed, and the conspirators were arrested. Mikhail Gorbachev returned to Moscow and resumed his position, but the event had far-reaching consequences. Coco Chanel ...

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 ...

In the wake of the death of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, it is appropriate to discuss his role in perhaps the greatest freedom movement in all Jewish history—the ...

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was overthrown after a coup by Communist hardliners, in August 1991. Mr Gorbachev was placed under house arrest at his holiday home in the Crimea. In a televised ...

Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt ... Moscow last August at the ...