In August 1991, hard-line communists launched an unsuccessful coup against Soviet President
A) Boris Yeltsin.
B) Eduard Shevardnadze.
C) Mikhail Gorbachev.
D) Vladimir Putin.

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The coup in August 1991 was against Mikhail Gorbachev, aimed at taking control from him due to his reformist policies that were leading to the weakening of the Communist Party's control over the Soviet Union.

In August 1991, Hard-Line Communists Launched an Unsuccessful Coup Against