About the book: 2011 / THE MAIN HISTORICAL SENSATION OF THE XXI century! Publication of L.P.’s personal diary Beria, which was supposed to be destroyed by order of Khrushchev, but, in full accordance with the famous Bulgakov aphorism: “Manuscripts do not burn,” this priceless document was saved, kept in secret archives for more than half a century - and only now, when the muddy foam of the “perestroika” era has subsided. revelations, slander and anti-Soviet hysteria, was transferred for publication to Sergei Kremlev, author of the bestseller “Beria. The best manager of the 20th century.” This diary is a unique opportunity to look into the personal world of Stalin’s closest ally and hear his own voice. This is the extremely frank testimony of the main witness of the era, shedding light on the most forbidden pages of Soviet history: the Great Terror, the catastrophic beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Atomic Project, the death of I.V. Stalin... The first volume contains records from 1938–1941. - from the appointment of Beria to the post of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR to the defeat of the Nazi invaders near Moscow.