Abstract
The book Od Stalina ke Gorbačovovi follows up the publication Cesta na výsluní. Zahraniční politika Sovětského svazu 1917-1945 and analyzes the main direction of Soviet foreign policy in 1945-1991.
In the case of the Soviet Union with its highly personalized system of government, the personality of the general or the first secretary of the Communist Party was also significantly reflected.