Understanding Issues in Comparative Politics

Key Personalities in the Russian Revolutionary Events

of August 1991 and Fall 1993

Political Science 111

Mary Baldwin College, Staunton VA 24401

by Prof. Gordon L. Bowen, Ph.D.


Reformers

Anti-democrats

August 1991:

 

Boris Yeltsin, Pres. of Russia

Gennady Yanayev, V.P. of USSR; Chaired “State Emergency Committee”

Gen. Pavel Grachev, Parachute Division Commander

Boris Pugo, Interior Minister

Most Muscovites

Marshal Dmitri Yazov, Defense Minister

Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Air Force Commander

Yuri Prokofyev, Secy. of Moscow CPSU

  

Reformers

Anti-democrats

Fall 1993:

 

Boris Yeltsin, Pres. of Russia

Vice Pres. Aleksandr Rutskoi

Def. Min. Pavel Grachev

Ruslan Khasbulatov, Chair of Supreme Soviet

Russian Military Commanders

Armed supporters of Rutskoi and Khasbulatov

 


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