The new book by the outstanding historian, writer and military analyst Viktor Suvorov is the first part of the trilogy “Chronicle of the Great Decade”, written in the best traditions of the bestseller “Kuzka’s Mother”, a grandiose historical reconstruction of the events of the late 1940s - the first half of the 1950s, when the severe post-war crisis forced the leadership of the Soviet Union to look for new ways to develop the country. Putting together well-known and little-known facts and events of those years into a single mosaic, the author talks about the struggle for power in the leadership of the USSR in the first post-war decade, about the decisions that the leaders of the Soviet Union made, and about the consequences of these decisions. This is a book about how constant failures Stalin's domestic and foreign policy in the post-war years led the country to a severe crisis, about the struggle of clans within the Soviet leadership and their secret plans, about political intrigues and how the system of governing the country and its satellites was actually structured. The events of that time became a turning point in the development of the Soviet Union and predetermined the subsequent collapse of the USSR and the triumph of capitalist economies and the free market. “Against All” is a new sensational version of our history, destroying the usual ideas and myths about the causes of key events of the mid-20th century. The book contains more 130 photographs, including rare archival photographs published in Russia for the first time.