Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side from the aforementioned locals and some diehard ex-Communists in Russia, practically no one noticed the 75th anniversary of the coup which for seven decades gave the Bolsheviks and their progeny control of the world's largest country. My core class on the Russian Revolution joylessly began its midterm 75 years to the hour after the coup got underway. Almost no one there even sensed the timing...
Those are pretty American events, so it might be an unfair to expect Americans to notice this supposedly Russian event. However, Americans probably should have been more aware of the 75th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup. Of all 20th century events, none had more profound long-range consequences...
...three-dimensional jigsaw of morality, politics and geography. Some pieces are missing, some are scuffed and torn beyond recognition, some bent completely out of shape; a few fit nowhere at all. The picture appears to show a maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...Russia's first | democratically elected leader took the podium on Thursday and proceeded to heap buckets of scorn upon the Congress of People's Deputies, a legislature populated with Soviet holdovers. Their simmering feud had finally boiled over. He blasted the body for "blocking reform," for orchestrating a "creeping coup." He accused Deputies of defiling the Kremlin meeting hall with "the sick ambitions of failed politicians." Then he called for a referendum to end the political stalemate. "I am asking the citizens of Russia to make it clear," he said, addressing the electorate. "Which side...
...front at the other may be decided by the man in the middle -- Volsky. If neither Yeltsin nor Volsky can achieve some kind of consensus, the Congress could embolden the most radical opponents of reform. Then the fear that dark forces are secretly planning a coup could become a reality...