Your device does not support the audio. August 19th has seen its fair share of monumental events that have shaped the course of history across the globe. Don't miss our top stories and need-to ...

Beware the vibes of August. Investors got a reminder ... the attempted 1991 coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; or more recently, the 2011 cut to the U.S. credit rating by Standard ...

the attempted 1991 coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; or more recently, the 2011 cut to the U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor's. August wasted no time serving up the volatility ...

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 ...

and that Mikhail Gorbachev was an incompetent and ignorant leader whose policies led to the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century,” as the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. is ...

This metamorphosis climaxed with the iconic image of Yeltsin standing on a tank and facing down a hard-line coup in front of the Moscow White House in August 1991 -- which precipitated the breakup ...

But as details continue to emerge about what happened, nothing could be further from the truth ... “Fifty years after the coup, what happened in Chile serves as a lesson for the world at ...

Communist Party hard-liners had staged an unsuccessful coup against premier Mikhail Gorbachev back in August. Boris Yeltsin ... As it happens, the third and bleakest option was closest to the truth.

The Soviet prime minister, defense minister, KGB head and other top officials, alarmed growing separatism and economic troubles, on August 19, 1991, put the first Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ...

But a more appropriate parallel, the site suggested, might be the failed 1991 August Coup against then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev by ... “there will be lessons even in that for any future ...