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August 19, 2011 9:49 am
The attempt to oust Mikhail Gorbachev may have failed, but it hastened the demise of communism and was the making of Boris Yeltsin. Quentin Peel, former FT Moscow bureau chief, looks back at Russia’s chaotic coup of 1991.
See also:
Former USSR: A democratic deficit
Charles Grant: It doesn’t matter who is president of Russia
Editorial: Russia plans for a post-Soviet union
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