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Sumber utama

• Gorbachev, Mikhail (1991). The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons. New York: HarperPerennial. Termasuk transkrip pernyataan rakaman video yang dibuat pada 19/20 Ogos 1991 sebagai Foros dacha miliknya.
• Bonnell, Victoria E. and Gregory Freidin, eds. Russia at the Barricades: Eyewitness Accounts of the Moscow Coup (August 1991), (M.E. Sharpe, 1994). Termasuk kronologi rampasan kuasa, foto, dan akaun dari pelbagai bahagian peserta dan saksi mata, termasuk para penyunting.