However, the movement was crushed after the August 1953 coup.

"It was the August coup that destroyed the union," he said.

The letter has also been regarded as a call to arms on the eve of the August coup.

He was a member of the August Coup in 1991.

The movement lost influence after the abortive August coup, that its leaders had supported.

A romantic climate was developing after the 19 August 1953 coup in the sphere of arts.

The clash was the first political violence in Moscow since the August 1991 coup.

He made more and more concessions to the conservatives, failing to see their threat until they moved against him in the August coup.

He was visiting the Soviet Union during the August 1991 coup.

The August coup taught the army the danger of putting itself on the wrong side of the barricades.