Soviet Kennedy. Riddle named Dmitry Shepilov

The hero of the book “Soviet Kennedy” is the grandfather of the author Dmitry Trofimovich Shepilov (1905-1995), candidate for members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. At the peak of his career in 1956, foreign analysts called Shepilov a third person in the hierarchy of Soviet power. In 1957, he was declared joining the anti -party group Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, deprived of all posts and titles. Thanks to the efforts of the then party leadership, who stood the memory of Shepilov from public consciousness, can be considered the most paradoxical, incomprehensible, unusual member of the Soviet leadership in the era of the transition from “Stalinism” to “stagnation”. The political biography of an extremely unusual, bright and spectacular figure. An analysis of the nature and beliefs that were unexpectedly relevant today, with the definition: before us is a classic conservative and passionate advocate of the ideas of the Enlightenment. Deciphering the meaning of the fateful historical fork for the USSR of 1957. The memories of Dmitry Shepilov the author of the book - his grandson, the absentee dispute of these two people. Fragments of autobiography of the author. A poem in prose, crowded with restrained and open emotions. And all of the above taken: this is what this book is