Russia at the Barricades: Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 CoupVictoria E. Bonnell, Ann Cooper, Gregory Freidin M.E. Sharpe, 1994 - 371 sider On August 19, 1991, eight high-ranking Soviet officials took over the government of the USSR and proclaimed themselves its new rulers. Less than seventy-two hours later, their coup had collapsed, but it would change the course of history in a way that no one - certainly not the plotters themselves - could have foreseen. The editor of this volume, who witnessed these momentous events, have assembled firsthand accounts of the attempted coup. They include testimonies from "junta" members and military officers, resistance leaders and ordinary citizens, Muscovites and residents of other locales, Russian and foreign journalists, foreign visitors and returning emigres, as well as Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Key documents and photographs complement the individual accounts. The provocative introduction to the volume places the August events in the larger context - from the early days of perestroika and glasnost to the second confrontation at the White House, in October 1993. |
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Saving the Old Country | 31 |
The Press Conference of the State Committee for the State | 42 |
Statements and Explanations by the Putschists After the Coup | 55 |
The Public Reacts | 69 |
Letter from Moscow | 78 |
Victoria E Bonnell August 19 and 20 in Moscow | 85 |
The Morning of August 21 | 100 |
Vladimir Petrik Moscows M V Khrunichev | 111 |
Vladimir Shcherbakov Recounts His Role in the Coup | 195 |
Interview with Yevgenii Shaposhnikov The Coup | 201 |
Interview with Davlat Khudonazarov From Dushanbe | 209 |
Interview with Aleksandr N Yakovlev Our Children Were | 226 |
Defending the White House | 233 |
Interview with Aleksandr Prokhanov Concerning | 249 |
A Man in the Crowd | 256 |
EMail from Aleksei Kozhevnikov On the Barricades | 263 |
Donald J Raleigh A View from Saratov | 131 |
Valerii Zavorotnyi Letter from St Petersburg | 147 |
In High Places | 159 |
Boris Yeltsin Proclamations Decrees and Appeals | 170 |
Boris Yeltsin Speech to the Russian Parliament | 176 |
Getting the News In and Out | 287 |
Interview with Sergei Medvedev Getting the News | 301 |
Ann Cooper The Foreign Press and the Coup | 308 |
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