Nikolai Zenkovich's new book thematically adjoins the Central Committee published in 1999, "the Central Committee is closed, everyone is gone. A very personal book," which was a great success with readers and was published in three editions within one year. In the book "There was such a country..." the author, who worked at that time in the Central Committee of the CPSU, answers the question "1985 - 1991: what was it?" To some, his answers will seem like repentance, to some belated repentance of the "veteran" of perestroika, to some evidence of an eyewitness admitted to the perestroika kitchen. And, perhaps, no one will be mistaken...