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gptkbp:instanceOf
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political event
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:August_Coup
gptkb:August_Putsch
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gptkbp:country
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gptkb:Soviet_Union
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gptkbp:date
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1991-08-21
1991-08-19
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gptkbp:endDate
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1991-08-21
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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23 August coup
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Moscow
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gptkbp:notableEvent
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Mass protests in Moscow
Arrest of coup leaders
Collapse of the coup after three days
Gorbachev placed under house arrest in Crimea
Yeltsin's speech atop a tank
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gptkbp:participants
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gptkb:Mikhail_Gorbachev
gptkb:Soviet_military
gptkb:State_Committee_on_the_State_of_Emergency_(GKChP)
gptkb:Boris_Yeltsin
gptkb:KGB
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gptkbp:precededBy
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gptkb:Glasnost
gptkb:Perestroika
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gptkbp:purpose
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To halt Gorbachev's reforms
To preserve the Soviet Union
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gptkbp:result
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gptkb:Collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union
Failure of the coup
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gptkbp:significance
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Marked the end of Communist Party dominance in the USSR
Accelerated the dissolution of the Soviet Union
Led to the rise of Boris Yeltsin
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gptkbp:startDate
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1991-08-19
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Royal_coup_d'état_(1944)
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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