GKChP: Poter or historical tragedy?
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The book presents a fiction description of the event called “putsch” or “coup” of the State Emergency Committee (State Committee on Extraordinary Regulation in the USSR) The event itself could lead our country to the civil war. Then there would be more victims than actually happened. If the country would go for the GKChP.
Persons organized by the GKChP: Vice President of the USSR Gennady Yanaev, Prime Minister of the USSR Valentin Pavlov, Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Vladimir Kryuchkov, USSR Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Pugo, USSR Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Defense of the USSR Oleg Baklanov , Chairman of the Peasant Union of the USSR Vasily Starodubtsev and President of the Association of State Enterprises and Objects of Industry, Construction, Transport and Communications of the USSR Alexander Tizyakov.
That is, these were the people who were part of the central authority of the USSR! And they stated that the country hung over the country that perestroika, which had begun by Mikhail Gorbachev, had come to a dead end and emergency measures were needed to withdraw the state and society from the crisis. It was not clear to everyone what kind of crisis it was. Even people who are far from any sympathy to the idea of communism admitted that in the Soviet period of Russian history the country has achieved unprecedented successes. And what could have happened that we could talk about some crisis? The answer to this question and what happened to the State Emergency Committee, the reader finds out by reading this book.
The book is illustrated by rare photos
Persons organized by the GKChP: Vice President of the USSR Gennady Yanaev, Prime Minister of the USSR Valentin Pavlov, Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Vladimir Kryuchkov, USSR Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Pugo, USSR Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Defense of the USSR Oleg Baklanov , Chairman of the Peasant Union of the USSR Vasily Starodubtsev and President of the Association of State Enterprises and Objects of Industry, Construction, Transport and Communications of the USSR Alexander Tizyakov.
That is, these were the people who were part of the central authority of the USSR! And they stated that the country hung over the country that perestroika, which had begun by Mikhail Gorbachev, had come to a dead end and emergency measures were needed to withdraw the state and society from the crisis. It was not clear to everyone what kind of crisis it was. Even people who are far from any sympathy to the idea of communism admitted that in the Soviet period of Russian history the country has achieved unprecedented successes. And what could have happened that we could talk about some crisis? The answer to this question and what happened to the State Emergency Committee, the reader finds out by reading this book.
The book is illustrated by rare photos
Author:
Author:Kolesnik Vladimir Ivanovich
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Culture
- Category:Social Science & Politics
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: informal biographies
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-98551-257-1
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