August coup of 1991
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- August Coup 1991
- Causes
- Problems with Nationalities
- Conflict between Yeltsin and Gorbachev
- Yeltsin was a more radical reformer than Gorbachev
- Split between radicals and conservatives in the party
- Yeltsin
- Resigned from the Party at June 1990 Congress
- 1990 Election
- Gorbachev elected president and General secretary
- Public started to dislike Gorbachev
- He said that the election would be a public election where as it was only members of the party who could vote
- Yeltsin elected chairman of Supreme Soviet of Russia
- Gorbachev Vs. Yeltsin
- Gorbachev had a law passed declaring a state of emergency
- Gave him great power
- Increased power of the KGB
- Yeltsin demanded a new Government where he and Gorbachev shared power
- Gorbachev had a law passed declaring a state of emergency
- Gorbachev's actions after the coup
- Televised parliament
- 23rd August 1991
- Gorbachev filled Government vacancies with conservatives who didn't oppose the coup
- Held a press conference the next day
- Expressed continued faith in Communist Party
- Stayed the night in his Moscow flat
- Should have thanked Yeltsin and Parliament for releasing him
- Gorbachev had to approve Yeltsin's decreed issued during the coup and accepted the Russian Government had equal status to himself
- Televised parliament
- The party's response to Gorbachev's actions
- Gorbachev criticised at televised Parliament session for not giving enough credit to Yeltsin for his release
- Yeltsin handed the minutes to Gorbachev that showed all but one of Gorbachev's cabinet had supported the coup
- Yeltsin disbanded the KGB
- Supreme Soviet banned all activities by the Communist Party
- Seized all party buildings
- Supreme Soviet suspended operations of the other Communist Parties in the USSR
- Yeltsin suspended the operations of the Communist Party
- 23rd August 1991
- Causes
- Gorbachev's power weakened
- Lack of drive within the Party
- Communist party was losing members
- 1990 Election
- Gorbachev elected president and General secretary
- Public started to dislike Gorbachev
- He said that the election would be a public election where as it was only members of the party who could vote
- Yeltsin elected chairman of Supreme Soviet of Russia
- Gorbachev struggled to hold the union together
- Came under attack from the Federation
- Gorbachev Vs. Yeltsin
- Gorbachev had a law passed declaring a state of emergency
- Gave him great power
- Increased power of the KGB
- Yeltsin demanded a new Government where he and Gorbachev shared power
- Gorbachev had a law passed declaring a state of emergency
- Radicals from Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia formed a coalition in support of Yeltsin
- CIS
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Formed December 1991
- 1922 treaty forming the USSR was formally cancelled
- Agreed on unitary control of nuclear weapons
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