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Maybe, but I share the view of the earlier posters that the USSR of 1991 was a spent force and the Gang of Eight succeeding would have at best delayed the inevitable (at worst, it'd have just thrown the USSR into a civil war, always a more-dangerous-than-usual prospect when nukes are involved)...

As of August 1991, I think he was working at the Leningrad/St. Petersburg municipal government, and he'd resigned from his KGB service either during or just before the coup kicked off. He'd probably remain insignificant unless the State Emergency Committee had great need of him.

I think it's more than just the Baltics that the plotters would have to attack if they succeeded in overthrowing Gorbachev & Yeltsin - Georgia seceded from the USSR mid-coup, Moldova did the same a few days later and Ukraine would almost certainly get messy as you said, even if the Ukrainian...

Interesting. From what I've read, it does seem like the plotters were either in over their heads and liable to fold like cheap suits when something went horribly wrong, as they did historically, or went too far in the other direction and were happy to go much further than their soldiers would've...

In August of 1991, eight hard-liner opponents of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms attempted a coup d'etat with the support of the KGB and elements of the military in a bid to 'save' the USSR. They briefly took down communications, claimed to depose Gorbachev in favor of his vice-president Gennady...