Who tried to seize control of the soviet government in an attempted coup d’etat in 1991?
a. hard-line leaders
b. boris yeltsin
c. army troops
d. mikhail gorbachev

The correct answer is A. Hard-line leaders

These were the members of the Soviet Government that were against Gorbachev's policies that were opened toward the west. They were like radical communists that liked the cold-war era and wanted to keep the relations between the two countries separated.

It is b, the civil law. i study  criminology