One of the main themes in Soviet history is the attitude of the people to I.V. Stalin. Why did they support him despite his harsh policy towards the peasantry, the repressions, and the heavy losses in the Great Patriotic War? Liberal historians explain this by our "slave psychology", the habit of deifying the supreme ruler. The author of this book has a different opinion on this matter.
Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov, a Russian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, who received access to the statistical reports of the OGPU-NKVD-MVD-MGB back in the late 1980s, is the most authoritative specialist on this issue.
In the book presented to your attention, Zemskov cites and analyzes data from the closed archives of the USSR state security from the early 1930s to the late 1940s, concerning the "Great Turning Point" (collectivization), the repressions of 1937, the state of society on the eve of and during the war - and much more. A complete and objective picture of that era explains the reasons why the people trusted Stalin.