ABSTRACT
Moscow is a city of ten million inhabitants. In Moscow, by chance, during the August events in 1991, Mikhail Agursky was consumed by curiosity regarding the participants in the coup, which he had anticipated. Agursky was a man of many accomplishments. Son of American Jewish communists who came to participate in the building of socialism in the days of Stalin, Agursky was an expert in cybernetics and a scientific adviser to the Soviet military. Agursky became a political dissident. Together with Alexander Solzhenitsyn and a number of other intellectuals, he participated in the early 1970s in writing a compendium of articles called From Under the Rubble, essays that gave an explosive impetus to a new political consciousness and activity in the USSR. In Israel, Agursky and a few other Russian intellectuals constantly clashed with Professor Ilya Zemtsov, whom Agursky considered to be a charlatan and an agent of western and eastern intelligence organizations.
