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 collapsed ...

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MOSCOW -- His emotions have settled with time, and the details of the August 1991 coup attempt are fading. But a decade later, Mikhail Gorbachev's dark brown eyes still flash with contempt when the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — His emotions have settled with time, and the details of the August 1991 coup attempt are fading. But a decade later, Mikhail Gorbachev s dark brown eyes still flash with contempt when ...

LITTLE ROCK — Twenty years ago, on the evening of August 19, 1991, some of the most brazen and important acts of modern-day journalism played out on TV screens across the Soviet Union. Earlier that ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hardline communists opposed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms staged a coup in August 1991, but the putsch failed two days later and ultimately hastened the collapse of ...

During the 1991 August Coup in Russia, the ballet Swan Lake played on a loop on state TV. The unusual broadcast alerted Soviet citizens that something was catastrophically wrong in Moscow. On Friday a ...