USSR: Attempted Coup Begins - 1991 | Today in History | 18 Aug 16
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On August 18, 1991 Communist hardliners attempted a coup d'etat against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in a last-ditch effort to save the USSR, following six years of Gorbachev's presidency in which he had allowed for a greater freedom of speech through his policy of 'glasnost' and begun a program of economic reform known as 'perestroika', or rebuilding. After three days of massive protest, the coup organizers surrendered, realizing that without the cooperation of the military they did not have the power to overcome the power of the entire population of the country. Four months later, the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 separate countries.
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