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Essay: The August Coup

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Arjun Yellap

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Arjun Yellap
Scotch College, 1 Morrison Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3122, Australia

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Yellap, Arjun. "The August Coup." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 9, no. 8, Aug. 2024, pp. 3058-3080, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i08.032. Accessed Aug. 2024.
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Yellap, A. (2024, August). The August Coup. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 9(8), 3058-3080. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i08.032
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Yellap, Arjun. "The August Coup." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 9, no. 8 (August 2024), 3058-3080. Accessed August, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i08.032.

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ABSTRACT:
“The coup… was a shock to the rest of the world” said Mr. Burns. “We began to realize it was possible that the Soviet Union might break up -- might cease to exist. It was unimaginable before that." These were Nicholas Burn’s remarks, the director for Soviet affairs during President H.W Bush’s administration, and the fall of the Soviet Union. The August Coup was an attempted coup by 8 hardline conservatives to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev’s rule of the Soviet Union in August 1991. They were opposed to Gorbachev’s reform program of “perestroika” (meaning restructuring), were angered at the loss of control over territories in Eastern Europe and most important of all, were fearful of the New Union Treaty, which would further consolidate power from Moscow to its 15 republics.

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