There was order. Stalin Anti -Corruption Committee. North A.

The history of the fight against corruption in the highest echelons of Soviet power began in 1919. Then Lenin created a special commission, which included Stalin and Dzerzhinsky, to investigate the egregious cases of corruption in the state apparatus.

later I.V. Stalin will have to take on the main severity of this struggle, the famous historian A. North writes in her book. “High -ranking thieves and dashingly, anticipating the victory, will triumph in vain: Stalin has already prepared forces for a decisive blow, for the great cleaning of 1937.”

The book is based on documentary material from Russian archives.