О моем отце Георгии Маленкове

A book about the life, outlook and political career of Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov, a prominent Soviet politician (1902 - 1988). In the last years of Stalin's life, he was the second person in the party hierarchy. The book outlines "the essence of his reforms, the history of their strangulation." Commenting on his point of view, the author cites original documents. Author Andrei Georgievich Malenkov (b. 1937) - Doctor of Biological Sciences.

"The fate of Georgy Maksimilianovich is not only the fate of a man who accepted the conditions of the cruelest oligarchic games and acted in accordance with these conditions (namely, this is how and only how he is presented in many publications), but also the story of a man who constantly tried - and sometimes not without success!-to overcome circumstances and, as far as possible, turn them for the good of the people, the state, and individuals. his living soul, not to come out after the death of the despot with those truly democratic reforms secretly suffered during his time, which became the first step towards the collapse of the totalitarian regime, and he would not have been overthrown in the 55th and rejected by the system in the 57th, when he the reforms directly affected the caste interests of the ruling elite.

Here's what the reader will learn in the pages of the book about my father...

Finally, I need to talk about how my story is built. The reader, of course, will notice: in addition to the division into chapters, where I follow the chronology of events as much as possible, all the material has another, internal division. There are pieces based entirely on my personal observations - I saw it myself, I heard it myself. There is a narrative of events based on various sources, including the testimonies of the father and people who knew him well from work.

And the reader will also find many places in the book where the author, based on the internal logic of facts, makes an attempt to comprehend some episodes and trends of the Stalin and post-Stalin era from the position of a scientist.

Depending on this internal division, three stylistic mannerisms unwittingly appeared in the book: emotional, when the author's "I" is in the foreground; strictly factual, when at the head are the testimonies of others or references to sources; and conceptual research self, where the basis is the logic of arguments and conclusions". A.G. Malenkov.

Content.

Chapter 1. Pedigree.

Chapter 2. Fight with Yezhov.

Chapter 3. War.

Chapter 4. Fight against Berievism.

Chapter 5. The Fall of Beria.

Chapter 6. Strangled Reforms.

Chapter 7. Opal.

Chapter 8. About father's views on economics, politics, life.

Appendix 1. G.M. Malenkov, A.G. Malenkov. On the universality of the principle: life resists gravity.

Appendix 2. From N.S. Khrushchev at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU on January 31, 1955.

The book uses photographs from the personal archive of the author and the Russian archive of film and photo documents.