Politburo and the case of Viktor Abakumov

This collection of documents is devoted to the activities of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU and law enforcement agencies in the investigation of the criminal case against the Minister of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR V. S. Abakumov and others. The published documents were previously inaccessible to researchers, which made it difficult to conduct a full analysis the circumstances of this process. This collection aims at expanding the public representation about this until recently closed business.