About the book: 2005 / In his new book, A. Bushkov continues to explore the personality of Stalin in the last two decades of his life. Bolshevik terror, personnel purges on the eve of the war, behind-the-scenes intrigues surrounding the leader and the great battle with fascism became the subject of his unbiased analysis. The author does not set himself the task of either “rehabilitating” or “praising” Stalin. He is only trying to restore the real history, understand the motives and explain the actions of Stalin without primitive clichés, when only black and white paint is used. Along with unique materials and photographs, the author, for the first time in the last 50 years, publishes the famous report of L. Beria at a meeting of the Tbilisi party activists.