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Maps, portrayals and rituals of Soviet 1991 coup attempt.

Educational history. Casualty figures are documented ranges. This is not operational advice, a ranking of nations, or a how-to for weapons or coups.

Foros, the White House, the Garden Ring tanks.

Belovezha forest as the December map point.

Maps

Perestroika crisis

1985-91 in Moscow, Foros (Gorbachev), union republics: Reform without a new union consent. A memory map, not a present overlay.

The putsch

19-21 Aug in Moscow, Foros (Gorbachev), union republics: GKChP, tanks, White House. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Acceleration

Aug-Dec 1991 in Moscow, Foros (Gorbachev), union republics: Party banned; republics leave. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Legal end

8-26 Dec in Moscow, Foros (Gorbachev), union republics: Belovezha to the lowered flag. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Memory

After in Moscow, Foros (Gorbachev), union republics: Yeltsin myth, later Russian revisits. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Portrayals

Mikhail Gorbachev biographies

The usual English doorway into Soviet 1991 coup attempt: Isolated at Foros, then returned too late to save a union presidency.

Boris Yeltsin biographies

The paired doorway: The tank photograph; later the 1990s Russian president -- a longer, harder file than August.

School survey chapters

Where Soviet 1991 coup attempt (19-21 August 1991) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than Moscow, Foros (Gorbachev), union republics local hours.

Local museums / sites in Moscow

Thicker than the English paragraph. Memory is the usual late pilgrimage caption.

Feature film / television

If Soviet 1991 coup attempt has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.

Korean comparative essays

A Korean reader may pair Soviet 1991 coup attempt with 1950-53, Inchon, Tsushima, or the ROK force-structure story even when the campaign was elsewhere.

Rituals

1991-06 / 1991-12-26 dates

The usual ritual poles of Soviet 1991 coup attempt: Yeltsin elected RSFSR president and USSR flag down.

Museum and cemetery wreaths

Official and family rites at sites in Moscow, Foros (Gorbachev), union republics. Nursultan Nazarbayev is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.

Classroom minutes

Where Soviet 1991 coup attempt is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside Moscow, Foros (Gorbachev), union republics's own calendar.

Sayings

GKChP

Foros

A junta that lasted 72 hours

"Soviet 1991 coup attempt" as shorthand

CNN archives are the English museum. Russian anniversary silence or spin is the local museum.

A Korean reader should note: low dead, high system change -- rare in this family.

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