Victor Suvorov's action-packed historical novel Vybor completes the trilogy about Stalin's preparations for a new world war in 1936-1940 and the struggle for power within the leadership of the USSR, which includes the short story The Snake Eater and the novel Control. The reader will witness the culminating events in the life of the main characters of the trilogy - Anastasia Streletskaya (Firebird) and Alexander Holovanov (Dragon). Fate takes them through severe trials and confronts them with a difficult choice, on which not only their lives, but also the future of the country and the world depend.The author carefully recreates the events and atmosphere of 1939, when Stalin, having seized power in the country , and having completely subjugated the party and economic apparatus, the army and special services, is eager for world domination and begins preparing the World Revolution and a new world war in order to conquer Europe under the guise of communist ideology. The prototypes of the main characters of the novel were real historical figures who worked hand in hand with Stalin, supported him in the struggle for power and organized covert operations in Europe on the eve of World War II.