“Leningrad affair”: intra-party struggle for power or, struggle for the purity of the ranks of the CPSU

Abstract

The article is a review of the book by A. V. Sushkov “The Leningrad Case”: a general purge of the “cradle of the revolution”. Within the framework of the study presented in the monograph, the author tried to formulate his own version of the purge of party cadres in Leningrad. In the process of studying various archival documents of St. Petersburg, Karelia, the Sverdlovsk region and other repositories, Sushkov collected and cited evidence of the corruption of the first persons of the city, outlined the features of their management both in the post-war years and during the blockade. All this information is based on various documentary materials. However, the scientist himself leaves the opportunity to supplement, and perhaps change the idea of the “Leningrad case” as the ban on the study of so far unknown archival sources is lifted. The work of A. V. Sushkov will be useful to a wide range of people interested in the history of the USSR.