Why did Marshal Akhromeyev hang himself? Did Zhukov seek to become a military dictator? What was Beria’s guilt? Why was Marshal Kulik executed? Was Tukhachevsky preparing a plot against Stalin? Did Frunze pursue his own independent line? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in this book, written based on new archival sources previously closed to researchers. They overturn the usual ideas about the fates of prominent Soviet commanders and their relationships with the general secretaries.
Contents:
• About this book.
• Suicide in the Kremlin.
• Insufferable character.
• Slandered and forgotten. How the knots were tied.
• Interrogations of Army General Pavlov.
• Tripping over the scepter.
• A double dose of chloroform.