Gorbachev after failed coup
- Title
- Gorbachev after failed coup
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 26 Aug 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:00:27
- Description
- Speech (via an interpreter) by President Mikhail Gorbachev accepting some responsibility for the events and promising democratic reform during an emergency session of the Soviet Parliament following the abortive coup that attempted his overthrow.
- Contributors
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Keywords
- USSR; Political reform; Heads of state; Presidents; Communist parties; Mikhail Gorbachev; Political crises
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