GORBACHEV
GIVES UP ON
THE PARTY
LOOKING OUT ON THE KREMLIN
THROUGH A WINDOW
IN THE PALACE OF CONGRESSES
ON A RAINY DAY
DURING THE TIME OF THE
28TH CONGRESS OF THE CPSU
MOSCOW, JULY 1990
Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), was still planning in the summer of 1991 to hold a 29th Congress. Even after the coup that targeted him collapsed and he was able to return to Moscow, he did not immediately see the need for changes. He pleaded with Boris Yeltsin not to suspend the activities of the Party in Russia (Yeltsin's bailiwick). On August 24 he got it, and resigned as General Secretary.
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