The 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt (19–21 August 1991), also known as the August Putsch or August Coup was a coup d’état attempt by a group of members of the Soviet Union’s government to take control of the country from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were opposed to Gorbachev’s reform program and the new union treaty that he had negotiated which decentralised much of the central government’s power to the republics. They were opposed, mainly in Moscow, by a short but effective campaign of civil resistance. Although the coup collapsed in only two days and Gorbachev returned to government, the event destabilised the Soviet Union and is widely considered to have contributed to both the demise of the CPSU and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The SovietEraMuseum present a few photos from this hard days:
SovietEraMuseum exclusive:
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MOSCOW IN SOVIET POSTER ART – SET OF 22 POSTERS
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Architecture. Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnogo Khozyaystva (VDNKh) – photo album
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Outdoor advertising in soviet and russian Moscow – photo album
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PHOTO ALBUM. Moscow of Naum Granovsky
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Soviet greetings postcards from Moscow (1917-1991) – ALBUM CATALOGUE
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ART ALBUM. Stalin times. Moscow in photos. 1920-30
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ART ALBUM. The Kremlin and Red Square Moscow in old Postcards
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ART ALBUM. “Igor Mukhin. My Moscow”. Moscow in photos 1985-2010
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ART ALBUM. Stalin times. Moscow in photos. 1945-50
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ART ALBUM – MOSCOW IN POSTER ART
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ART ALBUM. Architecture. Moscow Soviet and non-Soviet in photos
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ART ALBUM. The Kremlin Armoury / Oruzhejnaya Palata Moskovskogo Kremlya
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