The result of the hard-line Communist coup against Gorbachev was that
a. Boris Yeltsin led popular resistance to the coup.
b. communism remained the preference of the Russian people.
c. the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) effectively took the place of the USSR.
d. a and c above
e. All of these
ANSWER:
d
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