Gordon Ramski's Kitchen Nightmare

The background and foreground of the failed coup in Russia

Regime change in Russia lasted 24 hours, revealing more about the means by which the news is made than the situation itself.

For this one day in June, the picture of reality was shaken by events. A strong signal of unknown significance, it attracted the full power of narrative manufacture.

How did this event come to be seen as both the collapse and the co…