Special World Report: Diary of a Failed Coup
Eight gray men set out to seize back a sterner Soviet Union and in the process sent the nation spinning out of control. A special edition of World Report reconstructs the hard-liners’ grab for power, the ensuing people’s rebellion and the emergence of heroes from the ashes of a failed coup. And it looks ahead to new alliances likely to be formed in the shattered Soviet Union.
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