Book on the dissolution of the CPSU Central Committee, on the last year of the Politburo and Secretariat deprived of power, on their agony. The author, who worked in the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1985-1991. and was his internal chronicler, attended meetings of the highest bodies of party power, whose activities he covered in the Soviet and foreign press, shares his observations about the causes of the collapse. The book, thanks to the abundance of first published documents, evidence, materials, has source value, representing a kind of chronicle, a "short course" of the history of the end of the CPSU.