What did ten years of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev's rule mean for our country? What did he succeed and what did he fail? Why, half a century later, is society unable to appreciate his role in history? The heroes of L. Mlechin’s new work are the people who ruled the country for many years, the ruling class, the caste, which was as difficult to get into as it was to stay in it. The main theme of the book is the endless struggle for power, because the ruling elite lived in a world of intrigue, deceit, hostility, and cheating.L. Mlechin, relying on the testimony of participants in the events and declassified materials, describes the circumstances of the dramatic history of Khrushchev’s removal in October 1964. The author answers the question why Khrushchev was replaced by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. The book presents for the first time amazing documents from Brezhnev’s personal archive. This man led the state for eighteen years, but it turns out that we don’t know him well, we don’t understand well why the life of Leonid Ilyich’s family was so unsuccessful...