Kramola: Fate

20 hrs. 50 min.

Language Russian

Author Sergey Alekseyev

Narrator Dmitry Savchenko

An audiobook based on the historical novel by Sergey Trofimovich Alekseev, "Crisis. Book 2. Share." In this title, the essence of the novel is vividly expressed—telling about the share of the Russian person during the years of building the Soviet country and Soviet system. From the 1920s to the 1970s… After the first book, in which the author presented to the reader scenes of the terrible mill of fratricidal war that engulfed life in Siberian cities in the bloody chaos of the revolutionary in-between years, the second book immerses us in an equally complex and equally frightening turning point of the 1930s.

The novel spans more than half a century: the years of collectivization, industrialization, and repressions that followed those years of terrible and great war, postwar ruin, and the hope that children and grandchildren will live in a World of Peace, Love, and Labor… The hero of the complex and dramatic "Share"—Andrey Berezin—was planning to teach children in a gymnasium, but became the “punishing hand of the revolution.” Executioner and victim. A man with a difficult fate, unsure whether his descendants will be able to forgive him… "Share" is not just a series of epic pictures showing the complex, epochal break in the life of Russia that became Soviet. This work makes you reflect on the meaning of life, on fate and history—on the common history of victims and executioners, when you cannot immediately tell who is who…

1. Kramola. Stolpotvorenie (narrated by Viktor Tkachenko) 2. Kramola: Fate