About the book: 2002 / The book "The Unknown Siege" based on documents from party bodies, special messages from the NKVD, numerous diaries, letters and memoirs outlines little-known issues of the siege of Leningrad. Did Stalin and his inner circle do everything possible to help Leningrad? The published documents shed light on the activities of Smolny in the critical months for the city and shed new light on the development of the situation in late August - early September 1941. Previously inaccessible unique materials from the FSB archive are an indispensable source for assessing the activities of the repressive apparatus and the scale of the population’s protest against the regime that allowed blockade of a huge city and the death of hundreds of thousands of people.