Stalin. Secrets of power

This book first shows in detail the backstage struggle within the Stalinist leadership of the USSR, which has long remained a secret. The backdrop for internal Kremlin confessions in the book are the most important historical events of the 20th century, and we understand the true reasons for many decisions of Soviet power in those years. Author, doctor of historical sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Zhukov, on the basis of both well -known and recently declassified archival data in all details, describes the work of the “narrow circle” of the leadership of the Soviet Union. We see how in 1934 accelerated preparations began for a future war. How the military and state personnel were rearranged, powerful power groups came across, fell into disgrace and prominent party leaders came out of it. How the situation developed in the Kremlin tops in the war years. Finally, the Stalin sunset and the “horseme” fraud for power were deduced in detail during his illness and death. The causes of the defeat of the omnipotent Abakumov, Beria, Malenkov and the sudden elevation of Nikita Khrushchev were revealed