Victoria Bonnell: Russia at the Barricades

Aleksandr Daniel, historian and human rights activist, is the son of the late writer Yulii Daniel.

Leonid Kravchenko was head of USSR Gosteleradio, later renamed State Company for Television and Radio Broadcasting.

Eduard Sagalaev ran “Vremia” during the heyday of perestroika.

This was the name of the joint newspaper put out during the coup by eleven newspapers banned by the Emergency Committee.

Now the executive headquarters of the Russian government, the buildings on Staraia (Old) Square formerly belonged to the Central Committee of the CPSU.

The following sources have been used: Khronika putcha: chas za chasom. Sobytiia 19–22 avgusta 1991 v svodkakh Rossiiskogo Informatsionnogo Agenstva (Leningrad, 1991); Putsch: The Diary (Oakville-New York—London: Mosaic Press, 1992); Current Digest of the Soviet Press , vol. 43, nos. 33 and 34 (1991); Komsomolskaia pravda , August 22, 1991; … Deviatnadtsatoe, dvadtsatoe, dvadtsat pervoe … (Moscow, 1991); Valentin Stepankov and Yevgenii Lisov’s Kremlevskii zagovor: versiia sledstviia , (Moscow, 1992); and General Aleksandr Lebed’s memoir Spektakl nazyvalsia putch , published in Tiraspol in 1993, the first installment of which was reprinted in Literaturnaia Rossiia , September 24, 1993.