" Boris, you are wrong!", said Egor Ligachev to Yeltsin at the 19th CPSU conference in 1988, about introduction of direct and secret elections of the Party leaders. This phrase became an aphorism of 1980s. Ligachev, the ideology secretary in Gorbachev"s Central Committee of the CPSS, former first secretary of the CPSS at the Tomsk region, was his main opponent and critic inside the TsK. Ligachev continued his fight when Yel"tsin became the Russian president in 1990s. The book is full of facts about the political confrontation behind the scene.