The book reveals the role and significance of the State Defense Committee under the leadership of I.V. Stalin during the Great Patriotic War. They are based on rare documents, such as the previously closed personal archives of I.V. Stalin, G.K. Zhukov, A.M. Vasilevsky, A.I. Mikoyan, the archives of the President of the Russian Federation, the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, the journal of visits to I.V. Stalin in his Kremlin office.