On the nets and on the streets: a first-person report of the Soviet coup. (includes related information on the conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

From: Online | Date: January 1, 1992| Author: Valauskas, Edward J. | Copyright information

So read the first message on the Baltic Republics Discussion List on August 19, 1991 in response to the Coup, led by Gennady 1. Yanayev and his self-appointed State Emergency Committee in Moscow. I was one of 150 U.S. librarians in the Russian capital attending the 57th General Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The absence of my Macintosh Portable and a suitable phone line to connect to the West caused me to suffer an extreme...

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