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Abdurakhman Autokhanov was born in the Caucasus. By nationality - a Chechen. He was the nomenclature employee of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b). In 1937 he graduated from the Institute of Red Professors in Moscow. Specialized in Russian history. In 1937, he was arrested as an enemy of the people. "By order of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR, he was released in 1942, and in 1943 he emigrated to the West, where he defended his doctoral dissertation and became a professor of Russian history. In the USSR A. Autokhanov published six books, mainly on the history of Chechnya and the Caucasus. This is the tenth of his book.

,, strength and powerlessness of Brezhnev. Political Studies "-an exclusively written book. With an analytical talent characteristic of the author, the domestic and foreign policy of the 15-year-old Brezhnev period of Soviet history understands the book, which is especially important but when this period is coming to the end of the most normal, biological reasons: because of the advanced age of both Brezhnev himself and all the other members of the Politburo of the CPSU. The author is carefully sorted out and carefully widespie with the author , the literary “Brezhnev’s work is his just published memoirs (the books“ Little Earth, “Renaissance” and “virgin”), interesting for understanding the political climate in the country.

This is the first serious analysis of the entire Brezhnev period of Soviet power.