RUTYCH NIKOLAI (1916-2010) KPSS u vlasti: ocherki po istorii Kommunisticheskoy partii, 1917–1957 [The CPSU in Power: Essays on the History of the Communist Party, 1917-1957]. Frankfurt am Main: Posev, 1960.

- 464, [2] pp.; 19x13 cm. In the publisher's paperback cover and dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor scuffs and tears on the edges of the dust jacket. Nikolai Nikolaevich Rutchenko (Rutych; 1916-2013) was a historian and public figure. As a Soviet officer, he was captured during the Great Patriotic War and became a collaborator, then a member of the NTS. The Central Archive of the FSB contains documents indicating that during the Great Patriotic War, N.N. Rutych was an employee of the Gatchina SD, where he supervised and personally participated in the executions of Soviet citizens and partisans. Many figures in the Russian émigré community (S.P. Melgunov, R. Gul, and others) considered him an agent of the Soviet secret services who had infiltrated the SD and then the NTS. In particular, he was accused of facilitating the extradition by the Allies to the Soviets of members of collaborationist formations held in prisoner-of-war camps in Italy. The publication of his book The CPSU in Power in 1960 caused a great stir in the West and made Rutychev's name known not only among Russian émigrés, but also in wide circles of Western society. As an uncompromising anti-communist and representative of the right wing of the NTS, he was sent to the island of Corsica during visits by top Soviet officials to Paris, usually together with A.P. Stolypin (son of the Russian prime minister).