Subject category:
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Published by:
Harvard Kennedy School
Length: 19 pages
Topics:
Crisis management
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Abstract
This is a blow-by-blow account, painstakingly assembled from objective sources on the public record, of the dramatic effort of Soviet conservatives to seize power in August 1991, through the means of a coup d'etat. On one level, the case provides both a succinct, historical account of events, useful for those with a special interest in the last days of the Soviet Union. More broadly, however, it provides a narrative which can illuminate the political tensions which arise in periods of crisis and the form which those tensions are likely to take. It may be that the last days of the Soviet Union, like the memorable events of France in 1789, will serve both as history and as metaphor.
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Abstract
This is a blow-by-blow account, painstakingly assembled from objective sources on the public record, of the dramatic effort of Soviet conservatives to seize power in August 1991, through the means of a coup d'etat. On one level, the case provides both a succinct, historical account of events, useful for those with a special interest in the last days of the Soviet Union. More broadly, however, it provides a narrative which can illuminate the political tensions which arise in periods of crisis and the form which those tensions are likely to take. It may be that the last days of the Soviet Union, like the memorable events of France in 1789, will serve both as history and as metaphor.