
19: Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Russians, the Ukrainians, and the Soviets in the Soviet Union
By summer of 1991, as a new state treaty is being discussed, this question of how centralized or decentralized the Soviet Union is going to be. This pushes Soviet conservatives against Gorbachev and brings about a coup. As a result of that, Gorbachev is pushed into the background. The hero then in that little episode is a Russian communist called Boris Yeltsin. And what Yeltsin does is he sees this occasion, he leads the resistance to the coup.
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