For the first time in world historiography, biographical data has been collected and systematized about the most private people in the Soviet Union - members of the Politburo, the Organizing Bureau and the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee. There were 229 of them in the entire history of the existence of this party and the country. The author of the book, the famous master of “literature of fact” Nikolai Zenkovich, created a unique work, bringing together under one cover amazing information about the destinies of those who for three quarters of a century autocratically controlled the destinies of millions of people. The combination of an encyclopedic principle with a fictionalized form of presentation, many amazing details give the book a fundamental thoroughness and liveliness...