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The coup saw the communist Fatherland Front take power. [78] The new government abolished the monarchy and executed former officials of the government including 1,000 to 3,000 dissidents, war criminals, and monarchists in the People's Court, as well as exilling Tsar Simeon II.
The "Velvet Revolution" was a non-violent transition of power in Czechoslovakia from the communist government to a parliamentary republic. On 17 November 1989, riot police suppressed a peaceful student demonstration in Prague, a day after a similar demonstration passed without incident in Bratislava.
During the failed 1991 August coup, communist hardliners and military elites attempted to overthrow Gorbachev and stop the failing reforms. However, the turmoil led to the central government in Moscow losing influence, ultimately resulting in many republics proclaiming independence in the following days and months.
Operation MONGOOSE was a year-long U.S. government effort to overthrow the government of Cuba. [150] The operation included an embargo against Cuba, "to induce failure of the Communist regime to supply Cuba's economic needs", a diplomatic initiative to isolate Cuba, and psychological operations "to turn the peoples' resentment increasingly ...
Budenz, a former communist, was another important witness for the prosecution who testified that the CPUSA subscribed to a philosophy of violent overthrow of the government. [41] He also testified that the clauses of the constitution of the CPUSA that disavowed violence were decoys written in " Aesopian language " which were put in place ...
September 14–29, 1923: Staged in September 1923 by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) under Comintern pressure, this was an attempt to overthrow Alexander Tsankov's new government that had come to power with the June 9 coup d'état. Other than its communist base, the uprising was also supported by agrarians and anarchists.
Independent communist parties were established in each of these countries with the support of Sovnarkom, [43] which held a Conference of Communist Organisations of the Occupied Territories in Moscow 1918. [44] The government officially converted Russia from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar used in Europe. [45]
1919 Polish coup attempt in Lithuania: The Polish right-wing unsuccessfully tried to overthrow the left-wing government. Spartacist uprising in Germany: The German Communist Party unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the government. István Friedrich overthrew the Hungarian People's Republic lead by Gyula Peidl, in Romanian occupied Budapest.