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 ...

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 of his leadership.

Six years after entering the Kremlin, Gorbachev and Raisa sat imprisoned at their Crimean holiday home on the Black Sea, their telephone lines cut, a warship anchored offshore. The "August coup ...

open image in gallery 20 August 1991: a Soviet army tank pushes ... have remained behind in the Kremlin. According to Gorbachev aides, the coup began to disintegrate at 8pm Tuesday night when ...

In fairness, Gorbachev was not the only one to misread the situation. Just weeks before the August 1991 coup attempt, US President George H.W. Bush paid a visit to Kyiv – then the capital of the ...

Soviet citizens were going hungry, and getting angry. In August 1991, hardliners organized a coup. Gorbachev survived, but it was too much for him. He resigned as general secretary and watched ...

first 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 esteem of Western leaders and ...

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 of his leadership. And many ...