Introduction; I: Saving the Old Country; 1: Proclamations and Decrees of the State Committee for the State of Emergency, August 19, 1991; 2: The Press Conference of the State Committee for the State of Emergency, August 19, 1991; 3: Statements and Explanations by the Putschists After the Coup; II: The Public Reacts; 1: To the Barricades; 2: Letter from Moscow; 3: August 19 and 20 in Moscow; 4: Moscow: The Morning of August 21; 5: Moscow's M.V. Khrunichev Machine-Building Factory Reacts to the August Coup; 6: The Congress of Compatriots: Witness to a Democratic Counter-Revolution; 7: A View from Saratov; 8: Letter from St. Petersburg; III: In High Places; 1: What Happened in Foros; 2: Proclamations, Decrees, and Appeals in Response to the Coup, August 19, 1991; 3: Speech to the Russian Parliament, August 21, 1991; 4: Between Russia and the Soviet Union—With Notes on the USSR Council of Ministers Meeting of August 19, 1991; 5: Vladimir Shcherbakov Recounts His Role in the Coup; 6: The Coup and the Armed Forces; 7: From Dushanbe to Moscow; 8: Breakthrough: The Coup in St. Petersburg; 9: Our Children Were on the Barricades; IV: Defending the White House; 1: Reflections from the Barricades; 2: Concerning the Defenders of the White House; 3: Death on the Streets; 4: A Man in the Crowd; 5: On the Barricades; 6: In and Around the White House; V: Getting the News In and Out; 1: Three Days in August: On-the-Spot Impressions; 2: Getting the News on ‘Vremia'; 3: The Foreign Press and the Coup; 4: The August 19 Press Conference; 5: A Russian Reporter Remembers the Coup; Chronology of Events of August 19, 20, 21, 1991