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Oct 4, 2018 · nsarchiv@gwu.edu. Washington, D.C., October 4, 2018 – Twenty-five years ago last night in Moscow, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks and airborne troops to shell and storm the “White House,” the Russian Parliament (Supreme Soviet) building, to suppress the opposition trying to remove him. Declassified documents published today ...
Shortly after noon, after Soviet military forces directed by the coup leaders had taken up key positions in the capital, Yeltsin walked out of the parliament building, climbed up on a tank, and delivered the following remarks, denouncing the coup and calling for a general strike.
Article History. Boris Yeltsin and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Date: August 1991. Location: Soviet Union. 1991 Soviet coup attempt, (August 19–21, 1991), attempt by Communist hard-liners to seize control of the Soviet Union by holding Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev captive.
Apr 23, 2007 · When army tanks rolled up to the building on the morning of Aug. 19, Yeltsin, then the recently elected President of Russia, seized the moment. He strode outside, leapt atop an armored vehicle...
Aug 19, 2016 · News Desk. Twenty-Five Years After the Failed Soviet Coup. By Masha Lipman. August 19, 2016. Russia’s newly elected President, Boris Yeltsin, speaks from atop one of the tanks that surrounded...
Aug 18, 2011 · There was an air of theatre about it all: the display of military force; the ominous TV announcements; the moment when Boris Yeltsin stood on a tank to defy the coup leaders and declare their ...
Apr 25, 2007 · The first freely elected president of Russia, Yeltsin was widely admired for his valor in opposing a 1991 hard-line coup attempt, scrambling atop a tank to rally democratic opposition. Boris...
