The investigation leads a hard labor

Book G.S. The Ward reveals the events that took place during the years of large terror, the truth about which was classified and falsified. The author analyzes the difficulties in the work of the commission on the investigation of crimes of the personality cult period, which included O.G. Shatunovskaya - a legendary personality, the heroine of the Baku underground caused from Kolyma’s exile Khrushchev, showed opposition to the Stalinists, who believed that the tradition of publicism and the essence of repressions, monstrous crimes "could undermine the trust of the people." G. Pomerantz gives the surviving recordings of the stories O.G. Shatunovskaya about the ups and downs of her fate, as well as the most important facts and numbers characterizing these events, the materials of discussion in the press 1989-1990, documents and evidence of the era of great terror. To comprehend the described events today, the philosophical commentary of G. Pomeranz is important, awakening the independent historical thinking of man