The book of the famous Russian historian S.S. Voitikov has no analogues in historiography. For the first time in a large documentary material, in the context of the fierce and uncompromising struggle for power of the red leaders - Lenin, Kamenev, Rykov, Stalin, Beria, Malenkov, Molotov and Khrushchev, an unknown confrontation between 1917-1964. two key institutions of the Soviet political system: the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) - the RCP (b) - the CPSU (b) - the CPSU on the one hand, and the Council of People's Commissars (since 1946 the Council of Ministers) - on the other.