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In his book, S. Mechnyk describes the figures of the communist regime in the USSR from J. Stalin to Mikhail Gorbachev. The author examines the figure of J. Stalin, evaluates the figures of Leonid Kaganovich, P. Postyshev, and Mikhail Gorbachev, sketches the tragic image of the 1932-33 famine, the ruthless Yezhovshchyna and the liquidation of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox and Catholic Churches, the Executed Renaissance, the Khrushchev Thaw, and Brezhnev's terror.