Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...of the republics, most notably Boris Yeltsin of the RSFSR, led popular resistance...power, however, had passed to Yeltsin and the presidents of the other republics. On Aug. 23, 1991, Yeltsin banned the CPSU and seized its assets...