About the book: 2021 / Although all the heroes of the book without exception bore the highest military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, readers will see them to a lesser extent at the command post during the battle or hunched over a map while planning an operation. The Stalinist marshals are interesting to the author in a different form - as active characters in big politics and at the same time as its objects. Beria, Blucher, Budyonny, Bulganin, Voroshilov, Zhukov, Kulik, Rokossovsky, Tukhachevsky, Shaposhnikov - the choice of personalities is not accidental: in the fate of each of the marshals the Stalin era was reflected in its own way - with all its victories and defeats, ups and downs of the human spirit and crimes.