This brilliant account of attempts by the old guard to take back control captures the ludicrousness of it all beautifully ...
An introductory six-page glossary of public USSR figures gives an idea of the level of detail within Robert Service’s terrific new work on the coup against Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev.
A soldier in Red Square, Moscow, during the attempted coup in 1991.Photograph: Peter Turnley/Getty Images Marxist-Leninist rule in Russia lasted 74 years, and in August 1991 it effectively collapsed ...
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