The attempted coup against Gorbachev

Assembled from 18 blocks · 1 evidence · 8 related

1. Story
2. A committee of senior Soviet officials detained Gorbachev at his holiday residence and declared a state of emergency, intending to stop the new union treaty that would have devolved power to the republics. The attempt collapsed within three days against public resistance in Moscow and the refusal of key military units to act. Its consequence was the opposite of its intention: it destroyed the authority of the central institutions, accelerated the republics' declarations of independence, and left Gorbachev presiding over a state that was dissolving underneath him.
3. Knowledge
4. Mikhail Gorbachev
5. The attempted coup against Gorbachev
6. Connections
7. Mikhail Gorbachev
8. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
9. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
10. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
11. The Reykjavik summit
12. The INF Treaty is signed in Washington
13. The Berlin Wall opens
14. The attempted coup against Gorbachev
15. The Belavezha accords
16. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
17. Evidence
18. Named as the general narrative authority behind this pack's framing of the period, and cited in the Journey's own declared references. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. It is also a work with a definite interpretive position — broadly, that Soviet conduct drove the confrontation and that Western pressure and Soviet internal failure ended it — and this pack cites it as one reading rather than as a neutral summary.