Finance Ministers: From the Russian Empire to the present day. 2nd edition. Pachkalov A., Alekseev M.

Finance Ministers, People's Commissars, the main financiers of the country are people who have great power and played the most important role in the life of our state. They determined where to get and where to send financial resources, fulfilled the will of the country's leadership and took part in the development of fateful economic and political decisions. Who are they? How could you take the highest positions on the financial Olympus? What qualities did they possess, what difficulties did they have to go through? What were guided by in their activities, what were in everyday life and in personal life? The answers to these and many other questions in a lively, popular form are given by the authors of this book, who have done a great research work. The book may be useful to everyone who is interested in the history of our country, its economy and finances, and also wants to open the veil of secrets, which for many years enveloped the heroes of the real publication.