The way to the top of dictatorship: upstairs goes down

In the context of contemporary period of searching of Stalinism the author is analyzing O.V. Khlevniuk.s new book.The Master: Stalin and the creation of Stalin.s dictatorship. (Moscow, 2010). Some advantages of that book are stressed and the wide sources base including the archival documents, the correct and objective analyses of economic, social and politic causes of creation of Stalin.s dictatorship and the Purge among them.