Many people perceive I.V. Stalin primarily as a dictator, tyrant. What the leader of a huge, multinational state saw to his contemporaries during the periods of preparation for the inevitable world war, the fight against internal and external enemies, the restoration of the country's economy destroyed by the war, the reader will learn from this book. It included descriptions of meetings with I.V. Stalin from 1906 to 1953 military leaders, politicians, designers, famous people of the era.