In the new book by Andrei Artizov and Yuri Sigachev, on the basis of declassified documents of the Politburo and the memoirs of contemporaries of the "glorious decade," a dramatic picture of the removal from the posts of the third sole leader of the USSR - "our dear Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev" was recreated in detail. The authors, analyzing the memoirs of his comrades-in-arms on the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, assess the role of representatives of the highest party-state nomenclature in the "palace coup."