Year 1985. Your Word, Comrade Romanov

13 hrs. 20 min.

Language Russian

Authors Alexander Mikhaylovsky, Yulia Markova

Author Alexander Mikhaylovsky

Author Yulia Markova

Narrator Boris Pavlyukov

In the world of the seventy-sixth year, an attempt to gently force the overseas hegemon into civilized behavior, for those who know, naturally turns into yet another match in “Red Alert”—this time with a distinct “Star Wars” flavor. The score on the scoreboard is two-nil, Emperor Seregин presses on, now clearly understanding that the greedy beast from the Abyss doesn’t understand kind words—so the best argument for it is a point-blank salvo of canister fire from two barrels straight into its belly.

And ahead for the hero lies March of the eighty-fifth year: Gorbachev, acceleration, glasnost, perestroika, great hopes turned into the graveyard of a huge country. All it takes is to let go of the reins a little, and the expanses of the land will froth with a mixture of democratic and nationalist ideas of every shade—ideas that sooner or later will spill into a chain of bloody interethnic conflicts, one of the main victims of which will become Russian people.

After reading this book, you’ll find out whether the main hero has enough strength and skill to prevent such a development—and which way the world will tip after his arrival: toward a bright future or toward the bloody nineties.