"Dossier without retouching" - book series of the publishing house "Veche." The authors of the books of the series are trying to write not just a biography, but to compose a kind of portrait against the background of the era. The personalities of the series are prominent statesmen and politicians, people's commissars and military leaders, sinister figures who are the personification of Bolshevik terror, revolutionaries, traitors, financiers... The identities of many of them have so far been and are highly controversial among both political adherents and opponents, as well as historians.