For the first time, the full story about Leonid Khrushchev, the eldest son of the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev and the grandfather of the author of this book, is being published. Part memoir, part historical investigation, the book describes the difficult relationship between son and father Khrushchev, recounts the life and death of Leonid, and exposes the mythology surrounding his name. The author’s investigation is not just a reconstruction of the events in the life of the younger Khrushchev, it is also an analysis of why the negative image of the Khrushchevs has long and stubbornly lingered in the Russian consciousness. Nina Khrushcheva emotionally and frankly sets out the story of her family’s struggle to debunk the “version” of Leonid’s betrayal during the Great Patriotic War - from a chance childhood meeting with the former Stalinist People’s Commissar Molotov to the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights - and shows how “The Gulag in the Heads” still influences the way of thinking and value choices of Russians.