A book about the dissolution of the CPSU Central Committee, about the last year of the Politburo and Secretariat deprived of power, about their agony. Author, worked in the CPSU Central Committee in 1985-1991. and being its internal chronicler, attended meetings of the highest bodies of party power, the activities of which he covered in the Soviet and foreign press, shares his observations about the causes of the collapse. The book, thanks to the abundance of documents, evidence, materials published for the first time, has source study value, representing a kind of chronicle , a “short course” on the history of the end of the CPSU.