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    The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (Russian: Popytka Sovetskogo Gosudarstvennogo Perevorota 1991 Goda), also known as the August Coup (Avgustovskiy Perevorot)...
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  • of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, starting from the house arresting of Mikhail Gorbachev and ending in the surrender of the failed coup leaders...
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    1990 Zambian coup attempt 1990 Venda coup d'état 1990 Ciskei coup d'état 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (also known as the August Coup): Communist leaders...
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  • This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government...
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    of the Soviet Union was the 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum. According to Brian D Taylor, in the aftermath of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt that failed...
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    but the surge of independence sentiment in Ukraine after the 1991 Soviet coup attempt made this impossible, and Yeltsin was not willing to use force...
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    Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces (category 1991 establishments in Lithuania)
    Staff of the Voluntary National Defence Service. During the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, volunteer serviceman Artūras Sakalauskas lost his life in...
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    Home Council, attempted a coup d'état against state institutions, including the government and president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. They attempted to seize control...
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    The Venezuelan coup attempt of February 1992 was an attempt to seize control of the government of Venezuela by the Hugo Chávez-led Revolutionary Bolivarian...
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    Eight which attempted the August coup, assuming the position of acting president of the Soviet Union on 19 August 1991. After three days the coup collapsed...
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