Professor Nikolai Molchanov’s book General de Gaulle is the only work in the extensive literature on the life and activities of one of France’s major political figures which considers the general’s personality and the phenomenon of Gaullism from Marxist Leninist positions. It is written by an author whose books are widely known and liked by the public both in the Soviet Union and abroad.

Professor Molchanov is a Soviet historian and publicist writer. The special merits of his works are excellent literary quality and an original sociological quality and an original sociological approach to the events of our times.