Novel-phantasmagoria. Two Moscow bioengineering graduate students, impressed by the ideas of the cosmist philosopher Nikolai Fedorov, decide to stage a hoax. They steal Lenin's body and brain and claim that they have managed to resurrect the leader. But the situation gets out of control: the game they planned turns into bloody chaos. In Russia, at the call of the “risen from the dead” Bolshevik, a revolution flares up. Irreconcilable ideological opponents unite under its banner. The surrealism of what is happening is emphasized by religious and mystical hysteria in society and allusions to the “Apocalypse”. Only... Lenin can stop the senseless and merciless rebellion.