Detailed history of Soviet chess championships between 1948-1953. The book contains 77 selected, deeply annotated games from 16th to 20th USSR championships, crosstables of all championships, a lot of material on the history of championships, inclusive stories that remained behind the scene, biographical notes about players, etc. Accompanied by ca 220 photos and illustrations, many of which are not available from other sources, including photos from archive of David Bronstein. Bibliography and indexes at the end. Sergei Voronkov is well known chess writer and historian, besides the trilogy on Soviet championships he wrote the books Russian vs Fischer, Fedor Bogatyrchuk: Doktor Zhivago sovetskikh shakhmat 1-2, and others. 2 pictures. Further information about the book is available at elkandruby.com