Mehlis. The shadow of the leader

The book is dedicated to the activities of one of the closest and many years of Stealin"s closest associates - Lev Mehlis, who was the genuine Alter Ego - the second "I" of the leader.
On its pages, the reader will meet with Stalin and Molotov, Voroshilov and Beria, Zhukov and Tymoshenko. Gorky and Fadeev, dozens of other famous and ordinary characters of Soviet history of the 20-50s of the XX century. The action takes place either in the Kremlin’s office of the leader, then on the battlefield somewhere near Kerch, the picture of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks is replaced by a scene of the hopeless execution of generals in the fall of 1941: the tragedy of the people, who completely grabbed the dashing of war and hunger, is adjacent to the luxury, which was allowed Sovetskaya to himself.
Was the Mehlis the embodiment of evil or simply personified his contradictory time? These questions are answered by the book of the Doctor of Historical Sciences Yuri Rubtsova, created on the basis of archival documents, which until recently were on secret storage