This book completes S. N. Khrushchev’s trilogy about his father, begun by “The Reformer” and continued by “The Birth of a Superpower.” We are talking about the last seven years of the life of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, the former First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, removed from all posts in October 1964. Of course, these years reflected the reflected light of the entire previous “era of Khrushchev” - the struggle against the legacy of Stalinism, attempts to modernize the economy, and achieve strategic parity with the United States. The country, awakened by Khrushchev, could no longer be turned back - this was clearly evidenced by the reaction of the advanced part of society to his resignation, and the publication of his memoirs, and the farewell to the disgraced leader, and the story of the installation of a monument to him by Ernst Neizvestny.