Gekachepists. Artemyev M.A.

The book “Gekachepists” is devoted to biographies of people who have forever entered the history of the USSR as members of the State Emergency Committee (GKChP). They were very different personalities, but in some ways, undoubtedly, outstanding and talented, managed to reach the highest government posts. They were united by participation in an attempt to save the Soviet Union from collapse, but the failure of the State Emergency Committee only accelerated the collapse of the country and thus entailed the consequences of a world-historical scale. Maxim Artemyev, a writer, journalist, historian, at one time worked as a press secretary of Vasily Starodubtsev, one of the members of the State Emergency Committee, which prompted interest in this topic and prompted the writing of the presented book, the second in the account of the “ZhZL” series.