{"product_id":"the-august-coup-the-destruction-of-the-soviet-union-and-the-making-of-new-russia-1985-1991-9781529065787","title":"The August Coup: The Destruction of the Soviet Union and the Making of New Russia 1985-1991","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Service\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Picador UK\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Picador UK\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Social History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lively and insightful' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A must-read for those fascinated by the decline and fall of the USSR and the emergence of a new Russia' - Mark Galeotti, author of \u003ci\u003eForged in War\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Immensely well-researched and compellingly written . . . grips the reader from page one' - Andrew Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eChurchill: Walking with Destiny\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eKremlin Winter \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e, a dramatic and expertly researched account of an extraordinary moment in Russia's recent history: the August Coup. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1991, a group of eight plotters came together to overthrow Mikhail Gorbach�v, then the president of the USSR. These ruthless conspirators, who occupied positions of high office, declared a state of emergency to restore stability through authoritarian rule. The reality turned out to be a shambolic failure which hastened the fall of the USSR and a pivotal shift from communism to capitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with a minute-by-minute re-enactment of Gorbach�v's capture in his holiday home in Crimea, Robert Service follows the plot from its inception to its humiliating collapse. The troubling side effects of Gorbach�v's well-meant reforms in the Soviet Union - business fraud, government corruption, organized crime and interethnic conflict - increased exponentially, and a New Russia was born. Fathered by Boris Yeltsin, it brought lamentably less benefit to the Russian economy or its people than he had promised. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLinking the years from the coup itself to today's Russia under Vladimir Putin, \u003ci\u003eThe August Coup\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoroughly compelling and original chronicle of a moment that changed Russian and global politics forever.","brand":"Picador UK","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889440047255,"sku":"9781529065787","price":2634.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781529065787_f6561979-3083-43ae-9453-e16e761376d5.webp?v=1781176459","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-august-coup-the-destruction-of-the-soviet-union-and-the-making-of-new-russia-1985-1991-9781529065787","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}