Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov, a man of the "military generation," volunteered for the front. He reflected everything experienced during the Great Patriotic War in his works, in which he highlights not the political, but the moral aspect. In the novel "July 1941," the author spoke not only about the events of the beginning of the war, but also made an attempt to interpret them in the historical and political aspect, to identify the root causes of the defeat of the Soviet Army.