The collection includes fragments of Ryutin's journalistic works written in 1924, his main work "Stalin and the Crisis of the Proletarian Dictatorship" (the now famous "Ryutin Platform"), which provides a comprehensive analysis of a phenomenon about which disputes do not subside. In addition, the reader will get acquainted with Ryutin's autobiography, his speeches at the XIV and XV party congresses, and prison letters. These documents give an idea of ​ ​ a wonderful person whose potential turned out to be unrealized during the time of the cult of personality.