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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.

Oleg Baklanov, the last member of a failed coup against then USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died aged 89, the head of the Russian space agency said on Wednesday.

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.