Year 1956 is a time in Soviet Union's
history that changed everything. In essence, one person, Nikita
Khrushchev transformed Soviet Union from a purely evil terror State
into conventional autocratic state.
This
novel by Tom Rob Smith focuses on fictional life of a former NKVD
(soviet secret police) officer turned policeman Leo Demidov caught in
the real life events during transformative period of 1956. It is
brutally honest novel about conditions in which people lived under
Stalin's regime. These events were kept so secret (prison uprising,
revenge killings) that absolute majority of Soviet citizens had no
idea about it. The novel provides some accurate elements of what
happens in a country when state sponsored total control on its
citizens is suddenly lost.
I did not know about this author
until the new movie came out this year based on his novel "Child
44". However, my attention was caught by "the secret
speech". My father, who was historian by education and history
teacher at one point, frequently used to mention that Nikita
Khrushchev played the most important role in Soviet History.
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