Jonathan Steele
Steele, Jonathan, Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy
Chapter 4, pp. 59-70, gives an eye witness account of the coup and stresses the inefficiency of the plotters and the limited popular response to Yeltsin’s call for popular defiance and a general strike.
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