Mikhail Gorbachev was placed under house arrest after
a. he proposed a new treaty to hold the Soviet Union together that granted significant powers to the Soviet republics.
b. he appointed hardliners (those opposed to reform of the Soviet system) to key positions in the government.
c. he led a coup against Boris Yeltsin to try to restore Communist Party rule.
d. Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian federation.
e. governments in the Soviet Union's Eastern European satellites were overthrown.
A
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