Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...

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MOSCOW (AP) — His emotions have settled with time, and the details of the August 1991 coup attempt are fading. But a decade later, Mikhail Gorbachev s dark brown eyes still flash with contempt when ...

The author is a writer and a senior fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research The Soviet Union was tottering. Mikhail Gorbachev sought to overcome the crisis by pursuing perestroika ...

Gennady Yanayev, a leader of the abortive 1991 Soviet coup who briefly declared himself president replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, has died at age 73, Russia's Communist Party announced Friday.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited the graves Tuesday of three pro-democracy demonstrators slain a decade ago in the failed coup that led to the breakup of the Soviet Union.