GORBACHEV GIVES UP THE GENERAL SECRETARYSHIP OF THE CPSU, August 24, 1991

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

GIVES UP THE PARTY LEADERSHIP 

August 24, 1991

UNDER A GIANT 

PORTRAIT OF LENIN, 

GORBACHEV PRESIDES 

OVER THE 28TH & LAST CONGRESS 

OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY 

OF THE SOVIET UNION (CPSU) 

(July 1990) 

Thirteen months later, after a coup involving some of his own men, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as General Secretary of the party he had led for almost six-and-a-half years. Four months later he resigned as president of the USSR.