Labels:text | human face | man | screenshot | person OCR: THE FALL OF COMMUNISM SOVIET UNION OVERVIEW LEADERSHIP CRISIS SOVIET UNION POLITICAL REFORMS FOREIGN AFFAIRS EASTERN EUROPE 2 INCREASING TURMOIL LEADERS 2: COUP IN RUSSIA In August 1991 Communist hardliners opposed to Soviet reforms attempted a coup in Moscow. Boris Yeltsin led END OF THE UNION the resistance to the takeover. He then suspended the Communist party and organized the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev had nowhere left to govern. CHRONOLOGY NEWSFLASH ...
