Front-Row Seat in Moscow
The excitement and optimism of 15 years ago faded all too quickly March 2007
Janice Cowan arrived in Moscow to fulfill her duties as a Canadian military attaché’s wife just weeks before a crucial turning point in Soviet and Russian history: the now legendary August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev’s government. This three-day event, which caught the world by surprise and brought Boris Yeltsin to global attention, has been analyzed many times over by Russia experts and…