The book is a comprehensive publicistic work in the form of essays in which social, religious, political and media phenomena are read in the manner of theological hermeneutics, through the prism of a theological eye. It is composed of five chapters.
Biography • 20th Century • Communism and fascism • History of Europe • Political-historical essays • History of ideas
Roj Medvedev's book is a collection of biographical portraits of six key collaborators of Joseph Stalin: Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Anastasij Mikoyan, Kliment Voroshilov, Georgi Maljenkov and Mikhail Suslov.