About the book: 2019 / NEW BOOK by Armen Gasparyan is not only a fascinating story about the life, achievements, exploits and crimes of the most famous figures Russian history of the 20th century. This is also a unique, based on the latest historical data, look at the biographies of these people - from Lenin and Stalin to General Karbyshev and the main ideologist of the Soviet system, Suslov. The historical characters that you will read about in this book have gone down in history with different connotations - who Some are positive, some are definitely negative. But what is common to all of them is that their names have become iconic, remaining forever in our history. Armen Gasparyan is a popular Russian writer, historian, radio host, publicist, blogger, regular expert on Vladimir Solovyov’s “Full Contact” program, author of best-selling books on history Russia of the twentieth century.