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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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.  

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