Moscow vs. St. Petersburg. Stalin"s Leningrad affair. Rybas S.Yu

This story belongs to the period of "late Stalin", when the question of the successor of the leader arose before his inner circle. Among all the conflicts of that time, it stands out by the fact that it reflected the main problem of the country"s state structure, the rivalry of central authorities and regional, including national elites, in this case, the Russian leadership. Svyatoslav Rybas explores the problem in all its complexity, given almost all the aspects accompanying her and who made the "Leningrad business with a tragedy that is directly related to the acute problems of modern Russia. His pen owned the political biographies of the largest figures of the Russian twentieth century - Stolypin, Stalin, Gromyko. The author is an honorary academician of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Russian Federation