The beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet memoir literature

This article attempts to analyze the publication, devoted to the beginning of the great Patriotic war. One of the discussion topics related to the beginning of the great Patriotic war, the role of Stalin in the leadership of the country. Assessment in his memoirs very different, depending on the position of the author. In historiography and the history of the great Patriotic war there are "white spots", as well as some of the established clichés are not true. Most authors of memoirs, not entirely objectively assess the role of Supreme commander in the initial period of war, obviously based on the position of Mr. Khrushchev. With expressed in his secret report to the twentieth party Congress. Currently many authors recovering an objective picture of the events of wartime, and the role of the leader in organizing the defense of the country. In the Russian political literature on the history of war are often met negative characteristics of militarypolitical leadership of the country. Modern historians still have a lot of analytical work on documents and memoirs on the history of the great Patriotic war in order to objectively demonstrate its value in shaping the personalities of the political and military leaders and the development of the whole country, the changing geopolitical situation and development trends in post-Soviet States.