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With reference to break-up of the USSR, answer the following questions:
Briefly Discuss the Coup of August 1991.
Solution
With the poor economic conditions of USSR and resentment of the people for the poor living and working conditions,
the political scenario of the nation turned troublesome.
Gorbachev lost control and many of the republics started demanding independence. Massive demonstrations were held. He held a conference with the leaders of fifteen republics and encouraged them to form a new voluntary union in which they would be independent of Moscow at large.
Gorbachev was under house arrest by the Conservative section led by Gorbachev’s Vice President Gennady Yanayev. This was the coup of August 1991. After the coup, Gorbachev dissolved the Communist Party and resigned from his post. Boris Yeltsin became the new General Secretary.
On 8 December 1991, Yeltsin met the leaders of other republics and related the dissolution of the USSR and decided to form the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) of fifteen republics.
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