Witness to the Revolution

The author, a Russian TV journalist, witnessed at first hand the events that followed the anti-Gorbachev/Yeltsin coup in the early hours of 19th August 1991.;Vladimir Pozner takes the reader into the heart of the three days that shook the world, when for a while the world order reverted to the wasted years of the Cold War. He reveals the planning of the coup, the aims of the organizers, their lack of direction and their fundamental mistakes in how much the policies of glasnost and perestroika had permeated the citizens and the republics of the Soviet Union. At the heart of the book is the raw courage of the populations of Moscow and other cities, who recognized that if democracy and freedom were crushed on this occasion, it might never rise again.