Mr. Hexogen

28 hrs. 46 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Prokhanov

Narrator Dmitry Komarnitsky

Description

Alexander Prokhanov’s novel “Mr. Hexogen” is an explosion. The content and plot of the novel are a series of explosions. The effect it produced on the public was an explosion.
The book tells how, against the backdrop of explosions, power was transferred from Yeltsin to Putin. Moscow bombings of buildings are described and the mystery of the bombings is unveiled. Not the kind of conspiracy mystery that points to the perpetrators and the doers of the bombings, but the one that, according to the author’s version, contributed to the breaking of the most terrible and monstrous period in Russian history—known as “Yeltsinism.” That collapse could not have happened through preaching, through economic reform, through political procedures—it could only have happened through an explosion. Because that explosion, however terrible and deadly it was for individual people, allowed Russia to step back from the abyss of Yeltsinism and move onto a new historical track.
In 2002, the novel “Mr. Hexogen” was awarded the “National Bestseller” literary prize.