USSR SITUATION REPORT

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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2018-00042
• Publication Date: August 24, 1991

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Contents
USSR: Situation Report
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Special Analyses
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Communist Party Tottering Across USSR
After sealing Communist Party Central Committee headquarters, police seized the
headquarters of the Moscow party organization and impounded documents, which will be
scrutinized for evidence of party complicity in the coup attempt. The leaders of the Kazalch,
Uzbek, and Moldovan Communist parties quit the union party Politburo yesterday, and
Politburo members Alfred Rubiks, Yuriy Prokofyev, and Oleg Shenin were arrested. The
military, the KGB, and other key national organizations officially disbanded their party cells,
while Pravda severed ties to the party leadership. New Defense Minister Shaposhnikov has
announced his immediate resignation from the party and has ordered the General Staff to
abolish all political organs in the military. With Gorbachev looking on, Yel'tsin signed a
decree suspending all Communist Party activity throughout Russia pending an investigation
of the coup. In an effort to shore up the situation, party leaders issued disclaimers of union
party involvement in the coup, and Gorbachev warned the Russian legislature against
fomenting anti-Communist hysteria.
The party is now without a newspaper, its headquarters has been seized, it is without funds,
and the general populace hates it. An investigation is certain to reveal significant party
complicity in the coup attempt, which will lead to the arrests of more party figures and
accelerate its decline. Further party defections and protests are likely throughout the country.
Defections will hit the hardest in the provinces, the last remaining bastion of party influence.
These developments will force Gorbachev to renounce the party or risk ceding much of his
remaining legitimacy to Yel'tsin and others.
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