The main book about Stalin, sold in millions of copies and translated into dozens of languages. The best biography of the greatest dictator of the 20th century, written from anti-Stalinist positions, but at the same time preserving historical objectivity. The son of "enemies of the people" (his father was shot, and his mother died in exile), D.A. Volkogonov did not stoop to personal accounts, maintaining professional impartiality and creating not a political agitation, but an encyclopedically complete study of the Leader phenomenon - not a one-day book, but a book for all time.