The Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991 when Boris Yeltsin seized power in the aftermath of a failed coup that had attempted to topple reform-minded Gorbachev.

However, US Fifth Army forces at Anzio, under Clark's orders, failed to follow their original break-out plan that would have trapped the German forces escaping northwards in the aftermath of the Battle of Monte Cassino, instead favouring an early and highly publicised entry into Rome two days before the Allied landings in Normandy.

In the aftermath of the failed coup in Bucharest, the Foreign Office assembled evidence that the SD had backed the coup, which led to Ribbentrop sharply restricting the powers of the SD police attachés, who since October 1939 had operated largely independently of the German embassies at which they had been stationed.

After an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, Trotsky was arrested on 7 August 1917, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Lavr Kornilov.

The aftermath of the failed 20 July plot to kill Hitler.

" Take Back The Night " depicts the Prince's escape into exile, and " Through a Glass Darkly " depicts him in the aftermath of the failed campaigns, a broken, often drunken man.

However, the French failed to capitalize on the aftermath of Montargis, in large part because the French court was caught in an inner power struggle between the constable Arthur de Richemont and the chamberlain Georges de la Trémoille, a new favorite of the Dauphin Charles.

Pfizer lost nearly $ 1 billion invested developing the failed drug, and the market value of the company plummeted in the aftermath.

Due to the legal aftermath of the failed lawsuit against the NFL, the USFL folded and this divisional format never came to fruition.

These actions and upwards movement within the Popalzai tribal system, led to the Karzai family furnishing a viable Shamizai clan alternative to Sadozai leadership in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion when the Sadozai clan failed to provide a tribal leader.

In the aftermath of the war, Maybach and many other aviation companies turned to automobile construction, while Claudius Dornier purchased Theodor Kober's failed Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen and established Dornier Flugzeugwerke.

The original concept name and design of Human Potential began in the aftermath of the failed prophecies of Armstrong as outlined in 1975 in Prophecy !, written by Armstrong and illustrated by Basil Wolverton.

He had failed to interest several European countries in his project but in the aftermath of the English reaction to the Company he was able to get a respectful hearing for his ideas.

In the failed coup's aftermath, both al-Bakr and Saddam, were sentenced to jail for two years.

Although one of the richest and most powerful of the crusading Princes, Raymond of Toulouse had failed to acquire any Eastern possessions in the aftermath of the First Crusade.

The Irish Independent called the failed referendum's aftermath the government's " biggest political crisis in decades.

The Campaign for a Scottish Assembly ( CSA ) was formed in the aftermath of the 1979 referendum that failed to establish a devolved Scottish Assembly.

It did not help that the provincial election campaign was being run in the aftermath of the failed Meech Lake constitutional accord of Brian Mulroney's federal government, with which Peterson had significant media exposure in association with the other first ministers.

A key point of opposition was that the Vilna Gaon maintained that greatness in Torah and observance must come through natural human efforts at Torah study without relying on any external " miracles " and " wonders ", whereas the Ba ' al Shem Tov was more focused on bringing encouragement and raising the morale of the Jewish people, especially following the Chmelnitzki pogroms ( 1648 – 1654 ) and the aftermath of disillusionment in the Jewish masses following the millennial excitement heightened by the failed messianic claims of Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank.

In the aftermath of the failed Peninsula Campaign in Virginia, President Lincoln summoned Halleck to the East to become General-in-Chief of all the Union armies, as of July 23, 1862.

Leased by Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd in 2007 the hope that Formula One racing could return to the track, the incomplete venture failed to raise sufficient financial backing during the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.

The book — written in the aftermath of the Democrats ' heavy losses in the 1938 mid-term elections — assumes that by 1938 – 39 Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal had failed due to the constant attacks by his opponents, that in the 1940 elections Roosevelt would prove unelectable, that his downfall would drag the Democratic Party to ruin and that a sharp drift to the Right would culminate in an extreme-right dictatorship in the late 1940s — which would, however, prove short-lived and after which the pendulum would swing sharply to the Left again.

Given its harbors and fortifications, Saint Thomas still retained a strategic importance, and thus, in the 1860s, during the American Civil War and its aftermath, the United States government considered buying the island and its neighbors from Denmark for $ 7. 5 million, but at the time failed to find domestic legislative support for the bid.

In the aftermath of the failed strike, he supported the party by gathering signatures for candidates of the Socialist Workers ' Bloc, an attempt by the Communist Party to create a front which would win over new supporters.

Through soul-searching in the aftermath of the Holocaust, " there was a revolution in Christian theology in America.

Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.

His personal relationship with his brother-in-law Trotsky, which was good in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution and during the Russian Civil War, soured after 1920 and for the next 15 years he was a friend and close ally of Grigory Zinoviev, a more ambitious man than Kamenev.

For long periods she was in official disfavour and many of those who were close to her died in the aftermath of the revolution.

In the aftermath of the democratic revolution of 1848, a republican government was elected here.

The Greek revolution took place in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, which ended in 1815.

However it soon broke with many of the tenants of Bordigism and Marxism per se., arguing that in the aftermath of May ' 68 there was no longer any potential for the working class to escape the domination of capital through revolution.

In history, Spandau Prison succeeded as a prison to the Renaissance-era Spandau Citadel where Frederick II of Prussia had held captive the magistrates of the Prussian Kammergericht and the Spandau jail, where Carl Schurz had freed his friend Gottfried Kinkel in the aftermath of the 1848 German revolution.

In the modern world and in the aftermath of colonialism and the Industrial Revolution, land reform has occurred around the world, from the Mexican Revolution ( 1917 ; the revolution began in 1910 ) to Communist China to Bolivia ( 1952, 2006 ) to Zimbabwe and Namibia.

In a published speech delivered in Berlin on 12 April 1862, Lassalle assigned primacy in society to the press over the state itself in the aftermath of the 1848 revolution – an assertion regarded as dangerous by the Prussian censorship.

Governments in exile frequently occur during wartime occupation, or in the aftermath of a civil war, revolution, or military coup.

In the aftermath of the revolution a new constitution was drafted, censorship was formally prohibited, free speech declared, political prisoners were released and the Portuguese overseas territories in Sub-Saharan Africa were immediately given their independence as communist states.

In the immediate aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the MEK and the Tudeh Party at first chose to side with the clerics led by Ayatollah Khomeini against the liberals, nationalists and other moderate forces within the revolution.

In the aftermath of the revolution, several parties which claimed to be successors of pre-World War II parties were formed.

The work of the National Assembly and more generally of the March revolution was judged harshly in the immediate aftermath.

In the aftermath of World War I the German Empire was defeated, the Austria-Hungarian empire was divided into new, less powerful states and the Russian Empire fell to a revolution.

Sim Haris and Chris Cramer, both employees of the BBC, were at the embassy attempting to obtain visas to visit Iran — hoping to cover the aftermath of the 1979 revolution — after several unsuccessful attempts.

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the subsequent rise to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Nafisi soon became restless with the stringent rules imposed upon women by her country's new rulers.

Due to the difficult and persecutory political climate prevalent in the country during the de facto Provisional Government of José Figueres, in the aftermath of the revolution, he remained in Nicaragua, where he lived in exile until his death.

He experienced the turmoil of the revolution, and the aftermath of the abortive slave insurrection in Martinique before departing in 1793.

The book was originally intended as a study of the French Revolution, but as published in 1977, it focused on the effect of the Patriot revolution in The Netherlands, and its aftermath.

In the upheavals of the decades of revolution and its aftermath, leaders who were able to draw to themselves bands of loyal followers and keep them well armed and otherwise well cared for could assume the title of " general.

A new upsurge of revolutionary feeling swept across Europe in the aftermath of World War II, though it was not as strong as the one triggered by World War I which resulted in failed ( in the socialist sense ) revolution in Germany and a successful one ( for seventy years ) in Russia.

In the aftermath of the revolution Jetha Lila's primary clients left the island and in 1968 the bank ceased operations, despite the Revolutionary government urging it to stay.