The Coup 1991

Question 1

1. What was the name of the group who attemped the coup against Gorbachev?
2. Who headed resistance to the coup?
3. What did the coup do to Gorbachev’s position?
   - What did it strengthen?

Answer 1

1. Emergency Committee.
2. Yeltsin.
3. Weakened it.
   - Yeltsin’s authority.

Question 2

1. What happened to the communist party on the 6th November 1991?
2. What did the revelations of Glasnost lead to?

Answer 2

1. Banned by Yeltsin.

2. Loss of public faith in CP.