Lubyansky Longliver. Yuri Andropov against the backdrop of an era

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov for 15 months he headed the Soviet Union. At the same time, he remained in the historical memory of the people, first of all, as the chairman of the KGB of the USSR, which he headed from May 1967 to May 1982. The author devoted his book to the disclosure of this unique phenomenon of Andropov.
Over the years that have passed since his death, researchers have become available to a large corps of archival documents about his life and activity. “And, therefore,” emphasized V.V. Putin in greeting the organizers of the exhibition dedicated to the centenary since the birth of Yu.V. Andropova, our assessment of events becomes more objective and balanced, is based on real evidence of the era. "