Grigory Pomerants. A female convict is leading the investigation.

G. S. Pomerants's book reveals events that took place during the Great Terror, the truth about which was classified and falsified. The author analyzes the difficulties of the commission investigating crimes during the personality cult period, which included O. G. Shatunovskaya—a legendary figure and heroine of the Baku underground, recalled from exile in Kolyma by Khrushchev. He also describes the resistance of Stalinists, who believed that publicizing the mechanisms and nature of the repressions and the monstrous crimes "could undermine the people's trust."
G. Pomerants presents surviving transcripts of O. G. Shatunovskaya's accounts of the twists and turns of her life, as well as key facts and figures characterizing these events, materials from press discussions in 1989-1990, and documents and testimonies from the era of the Great Terror. To understand these events today, G. Pomerants's philosophical commentary is essential, stimulating independent historical thinking.