A New Book by a Leading American Stalinist Historian! Sensational investigation of the main secret of the Soviet past! Refuting the most false "liberal" myths about 1937 and "innocent victims of repression"! Were the show trials of 1936-1938. fabricated, and the confessions of the defendants were knocked out under torture? Why was it necessary to "wash dirty linen in public" and undermine confidence in the authorities by declaring yesterday's "party favorites" enemies? What was the real cause of the "great terror"? And why, unlike the open and open Stalinist justice, Khrushchev exposed the "crimes" of the Leader secretly, at a closed meeting of the 20th Congress, without daring to bring the question to the court of the people?