Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin (1937-1998) - Soviet sociologist, philosopher, historian of the revolutionary movement, author of a seven-volume history of the internal party struggle in the CPSU (b) and the Comintern in 1922-1940. In this study, for the first time in domestic and world science, the most extensive factual material from the most dramatic period of our history (from 1922 to 1941) was comprehended and linked into a single historical concept of development (completely different from the one that was imposed on us in Soviet times, and the one that is being imposed now). g.).The title of the fourth volume speaks for itself - this is the most terrible year in the history of Russia. Based on many historical materials, including archival documents, the author in many ways reveals in a new way the mechanism of the great purge, mass repressions, Yezhovshchina.