Who could have thought that the fate of the world would end up in the hands of two people who, in the eyes of their contemporaries, looked like almost marginal outsiders? Yet the whirlwinds of events pushed Lenin and Stalin to the levers of power. By a gesture of a hand, people’s lives collapsed, and the shadows of ancestors were turned over. How did they end up as the main actors on the stage of history?
The events of the book unfold from 1917 to 1953. A bloody era appears as a series of faces and events whose traces have not yet been erased from memory.