Boris Yeltsin
He openly supported Gorbachev
It's usually called a "coup d'etat", or simply "a coup".
Napoleon's coup in 1799.
a coup can be violent or non-violent
Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt happened in 1990.
He organized opposition to the coup - Apex
On April 22, 1990, Gideon Orka attempted an unsuccessful coup to remove the government of Ibrahim Babangida. The coup attempt has been describe as one of the bloodies coup in Nigeria.
He told the Russian people that the coup was bad, advised all the people of Moscow against the coup, and openly supported Gorbachev.
Russian coup attempt. Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
The coup was meant to overthrow the government. The overthrow attempt did not work.
He openly supported Gorbachev
Napoleon was part of a coup against the French Directory and became the First Consul of the Executive Government of the First French Republic. He had been brought into the coup attempt to provide the military muscle.
On August 16, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was placed under house arrest during a coup attempt by high-ranking officials opposed to his reform policies. The coup ultimately failed, resulting in the collapse of the coup plotters' leadership and contributing to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
It is Coup. As in coup d'etat.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'état
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