Question

The attempted coup against the Soviet government in 1991 was led by

Answer 1

Explanation:

The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup,[a] was a failed attempt made by Communist leaders of the Soviet Union to take control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary. The coup leaders were hard-line opponents of Gorbachev's reform program and of the new union treaty that he had negotiated. The treaty decentralized much of the central government's power to the republics. The hard-liners were opposed, mainly in Moscow, by a short but effective campaign of civil resistance[11] led by Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who had been both an ally and critic of Gorbachev

Answer 2

Answer:

most if not all USSR hard liner

Explanation:

this happened in 1991 when the Ussr started to reform into what it is now this caused most USSR radicals' to launch a coup agents the president however the reason for the failure  was the fact that not all of the military supported the coup and then riots started to brake out