The end of the project. 1991. Zenkovich N.

The book of the famous historian and publicist Nikolai Zenkovich was created on the basis of his personal diaries, which he has been conducted over the past 50 years. The long -term work in the Central Committee of the CPSU, the State Duma and the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation gave him the opportunity not only to be in the center of events that changed the appearance of the country, but also the most important thing - to gain access to exclusive information. The reader learns about all the most significant events in 1991. How did the Soviet Union fall apart? Who and to what extent contributed to the collapse of a great power? Why did the CPSU become a bargaining coin in the hands of politicians? What happened behind the curtains of the August putpie? The reader learns about this and much more from a book that opens a large-scale author’s project designed to cover the turning point 1990s.