This brilliant account of attempts by the old guard to take back control captures the ludicrousness of it all beautifully Marxist-Leninist rule in Russia lasted 74 years, and in August 1991 it effectively collapsed in just three days: clear evidence of how hollowed out it had become. In the peri...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/03/the-august-coup-by-robert-service-review-the-drink-soaked-collapse-of-the-soviet-union)

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