This book talks about one of the most interesting, somewhat tragic, but certainly eventful periods in the history of our country, when for some people were replaced by stable, and for others “stagnant” decades of Brezhnev’s rule It's time for a transition period. For three years, the supreme power in the country literally passed from hand to hand. Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev - a kaleidoscope of political stars, some of which flashed and went out..., some went unnoticed, and some caught fire, burned and swept across the country like a wave so that its reflections and fire engulfed all of Russia, without leaving even a trace of the past calm and stagnant life. The author of the book is a famous political scientist of the Russian abroad, writer and publicist Abdurakhman Genazovich Avtorkhanov (1908–1997).