| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:revolutionary 
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                                | gptkbp:aftermath | Ban of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991
 Independence declarations by Soviet republics
 
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                                | gptkbp:alsoKnownAs | gptkb:August_1991_coup gptkb:August_Putsch
 
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                                | gptkbp:date | 19 August 1991 
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                                | gptkbp:endDate | 21 August 1991 
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                                | gptkbp:location | gptkb:Moscow gptkb:Soviet_Union
 
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                                | gptkbp:mediaCoverage | Extensive international media attention 
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                                | gptkbp:motive | Preserve the Soviet Union Prevent signing of the new union treaty
 Remove Gorbachev from power
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableEvent | gptkb:Siege_of_the_Russian_White_House Death of three protesters
 Gorbachev's house arrest in Crimea
 Mass protests in Moscow
 
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                                | gptkbp:opposedBy | gptkb:Russian_SFSR_government gptkb:Boris_Yeltsin
 Russian people
 
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                                | gptkbp:organizer | gptkb:State_Committee_on_the_State_of_Emergency_(GKChP) 
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                                | gptkbp:participants | gptkb:Soviet_military gptkb:Soviet_Communist_Party_conservatives
 gptkb:Soviet_hardliners
 gptkb:KGB
 
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                                | gptkbp:relatedTo | gptkb:Crimea gptkb:Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union
 gptkb:Mikhail_Gorbachev
 gptkb:Soviet_Union
 gptkb:Soviet_military
 gptkb:Russian_White_House
 gptkb:State_Committee_on_the_State_of_Emergency_(GKChP)
 gptkb:Boris_Yeltsin
 gptkb:Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
 gptkb:KGB
 gptkb:Russian_SFSR
 
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                                | gptkbp:result | Boris Yeltsin's rise to power Coup failed
 Dissolution of the Soviet Union accelerated
 
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                                | gptkbp:significance | Accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union Marked the rise of Boris Yeltsin
 Led to the end of the Communist Party's rule in the Soviet Union
 
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                                | gptkbp:target | gptkb:Mikhail_Gorbachev gptkb:Soviet_government
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 5 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | August Coup 
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