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[Coup in Moscow]

Item number (ISN):

422621

Series title:

Morningside : [excerpt]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

422621

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

GRAY, Elizabeth

Accession:

2010-0012

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1991-09-19

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

reporter, John Gray

Description:

The unnamed guest host of MORNINGSIDE interviews John Gray, the Moscow correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail, about the situation in Moscow, where a coup has overthrown Mikhail Gorbachev. Russian state media are reporting that Gorbachev has left office for health reasons. <7mn 38s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. First track on CD.~2. Interviewer sounds like Paul Kennedy.~3. On 19 August 1991, Communist hardliners Gennady Yanayev, Dimitri Yazov, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Alexander Tizyakov, Oleg Baklanov, Vasily Starodubtsev, Boris Pugo and Valentin Pavlov overthrew Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replaced him with Gennady Yanayev. ~4. On 19 August 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin climbed on top of a tank outside the Russian Parliament in Moscow and called for the Russian people to oppose the coup. ~5. On 21 August 1991 the coup attempt collapsed. The next day, Mikhail Gorbachev arrived back in Moscow after being held prisoner for 72 hours during the coup attempt. On 24 August 1991 Gorbachev resigned from the Communist Party. He remained President of the Soviet Union until the end of December 1991.

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Vault ISN:

508032

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2028AV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

64:07

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation holds copyright on the completed broadcasts.

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