Question 8 • TX-US History Studies Since 1877 B-Credit Recovery Summer School
In August 1991, a group of Communist hardliners in the Soviet government and military tried to remove Mikhail Gorbachev and stop his reforms. Their attempt became known as the August Coup. Boris Yeltsin opposed the coup rather than leading it, so the correct choice is Communist hardliners.
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