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The attempted coup against the Soviet government in 1991 was led by
the United States.
Boris Yeltsin.
citizens angered by shortages.
Communist hardliners.

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Communist hardliners.

The August 1991 coup was carried out by a group of hardline Communist officials (the GKChP) who opposed Gorbachev’s reforms and the new union treaty.