About the book: 2014 / New book by the outstanding historian, writer and military analyst Viktor Suvorov - the second part of the trilogy "Chronicle of the Great Decade", a grandiose historical reconstruction of the events of 1956 -1957, when Nikita Khrushchev, with the support of Marshal Zhukov, removed Stalin’s former closest associates from the leadership of the Soviet Union, and Zhukov secretly prepared a military coup to remove Khrushchev and establish sole power in the country. Reconstructing the events of those years and putting together known and little-known facts into a single mosaic, the author talks about the struggle for power in the leadership of the USSR, about the conspiracy of Zhukov and his associates against Khrushchev, about the discovery of this conspiracy thanks to a chain of accidents and about the most complex secret operation to isolate and remove Zhukov from the authorities. This is a book about how the system of governing the country changed after the abolition of Stalin’s practice of systematically forcibly changing the leadership elite, how a new generation of young party leaders began to make a career in power, who a few years later replaced Khrushchev at the helm of government of the country, what alternative scenario for the development of the USSR Zhukov was preparing to implement , and why Khrushchev, who made many mistakes during his reign, still deserves recognition for saving the country and the world from Zhukov. The book contains more than 60 photographs, including rare photographs from Russian and foreign archives, published in Russia for the first time.