The full story of 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 published for the first time. Partly a memoir, partly a historical investigation, the book describes the difficult relationship between his son and father Khrushchev, tells about the life and death of Leonid and exposes the mythology surrounding his name. The author's investigation is not just a restoration of the events of the life of the younger Khrushchev, it is also an analysis of why the negative image of the Khrushchevs is long and stubbornly held 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 random childhood meeting with the former Stalinist People's Commissar Molotov to the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights - and shows how the "Gulag in the Head" still affects the way thoughts and value choices of Russians.