The novel by Anatoly Bayukansky, written in an action-packed form, tells about the last ten years of the country’s life, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the forces at the origins of this collapse. This is not only a story about the personal lives of Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, but also a story about the upheavals of ordinary people; about the origin and development of mafia structures, the collapse of the country, revaluation of values, blood and tears. This is a story about the “black redistribution” of a great country.