Article: 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)

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 case of information starvation. An old issue of USA TODAY in my hotel lobby had a banner headline reading that Gorbachev was preparing for a meeting, not wrestling with the KGB. The Soviet ...

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