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...government have become increasingly irrelevant as the republics fill the political vacuum created by the failed hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August...
...sincerity of Kravchuk, a former Communist Party boss, became the key campaign issue because he quit the party and embraced the independence drive only after the failed coup...
...Pontifell took a printing course and promptly fell in love. "There's nothing like running your fingers over the letters on a newly printed page," he says. "It enhances the way you experience the words." At age 16 he leased his own letterpress, and Thornwillow was born. His first coup was printing historian William L. Shirer's memoir of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. Since then Thornwillow has published works by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Helmut Kohl. This week it brings out The Presidency by Hugh Sidey. The book is available through Thornwillow Press in New York City; $300 leather...
...Your return was prompted by the failed Soviet coup in August...
...decision had nothing directly to do with the coup...