«YA zakryl KPSS» memuary Yevgeniya Savost'yanova, predsedatel' KGB SSSR i predsedatel' Federal'noy sluzhby kontrrazvedki Rossii v nachale devyanostykh. Naznacheniye na rabotu v spetssluzhby demokratov i antikommunistov Yevgeniya Savost'yanova bylo neozhidannym. No devyanostyye gody XX veka v Rossii byli polnost'yu oborudovany povorotami v sud'bakh lyudey. Avtor etikh vospominaniy lichno uchastvoval v «pokhoronakh» Kommunisticheskoy partii Sovetskogo Soyuza, snyal grif «sekretno» s istorii Butovskogo poligona, gde v gody stalinskikh repressiy byli rasstrelyany prisutstvuyushchiye lyudi, pervym naladil kontakt s antidudayevskoy oppozitsiyey v Chechne, ispol'zoval za kadrovuyu inspektsiyu v administratsii prezidenta Yel'tsina. Sredi tekh, s kem yego stolknula sud'ba, byli Andrey Sakharov i Mikhail Gorbachov, Yuriy Luzhkov i Vladimir Gusinskiy, Sergey Stepashin i Anatoliy Chubays. Chitatelya ozhidayut vstrechi s etimi i druz'yami politikami, pravozashchitnikami, biznesmenami, kotoryye v toy ili inoy stepeni zavershatsya na khode istorii v devyanostyye. V memuarakh Yevgeniya Savost'yanova mnogo raneye ne rasprostranennykh publichnykh faktov i detaley, kotoryye sokhranilis' blagodarya yego dnevnikam. Avtor ne pretenduyet na bespristrastnost' bol'shoy i eto plyus knigi. V etoy knige yest' bol' i radost', somneniya i popytki osmyslit' perezhitoye. A znachit, u chitatelya poyavilas' vozmozhnost' ponyat' lyudey, kotoryye kogda-to poverili v to, chto Rossiya mozhet stat' svobodnoy demokraticheskoy stranoy.

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