About the book: 2002 / The basis of the book is the life and work of one of Stalin’s closest associates, a brilliant orator, a favorite of the party - Sergei Mironovich Kirov, whose tragic death added to the list of mysteries century. This year he would have turned 115 years old. The author, using a wealth of factual material from the country's closed archives, reveals the main stages in the formation of this extraordinary personality, shows the strengths and weaknesses of his character. The book, written in a polemical genre, exposes the myths and legends that developed about Kirov after his death, and attempts to exaggerate his role in the events of those years. A new, unknown Kirov will appear before the reader.