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2 days ago · The final nail in the coffin of Soviet communism came in August 1991, when a group of hardline communists launched a coup attempt against Gorbachev. The coup plotters, who included high-ranking officials from the military, the KGB, and the Communist Party, sought to reverse Gorbachev‘s reforms and reassert the dominance of the party.
2 days ago · The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union 's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time.
- 19-22 August 1991(4 days); 32 years ago
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
1 day ago · Then in 1987, President Reagan gave another speech admonishing the then Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, saying: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” And within two years, just like watching dominos toppling each other, the countries and institutions that constituted the USSR had fallen.
3 days ago · A top aide to Mikhail Gorbachev who later became one of the most important scholars of the perestroika period, Chernyaev’s diary for 1984 documents his time as deputy director of the International Department of the Central Committee, responsible for the International Communist Movement (ICM).
15 hours ago · In April 1983, in a sign of growing ascendancy, Gorbachev delivered the annual speech marking the birthday of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin; this required him re-reading many of Lenin's later writings, in which the latter had called for reform in the context of the New Economic Policy of the 1920s, and encouraged Gorbachev's own conviction ...
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4 days ago · In Reagan's speech, he not only identified himself as a fellow Berliner, but challenged Mikhail Gorbachev, who was seen by the West increasingly as the driving force behind reform in Eastern Europe, saying: "Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
5 days ago · Reagan, Handwritten Draft of Letter to Gorbachev, November 28, 1985. Document ID 8591239, Head of State File Records, Box 40, ARC Identifier 198162, Collection RR-EXSEC: Executive Secretariat, National Security Council Records, 01/20/1981-01/20/1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library.
