На другой день

A. Beck's book includes two novels that were not published during the life of the writer, and the story "This is the position", published in the journal "New World" in 1969. The central figure of the novel "The Next Day" is J. Stalin. In spite of censorship and social stagnation, back in the 60s of the last century, the writer bravely undertook an objective study of the Stalinist phenomenon. Having studied a huge amount of archival materials, having conducted hundreds of conversations with participants and witnesses of revolutionary events who left the Gulag camps, Beck created a problematic novel about the leader's power and charisma. The novel is smart. The novel is talented. The strict authenticity of the document organically combined with the daring paradoxes of imagination and generalization. The novel "The New Appointment" analyzes the administrative system A. Beck for the first time made the secret clear, the very essence of this system, discovered its functioning, its true interests. The author shows how the system cripples a particular person, turning him into a mechanism for fulfilling the will of the higher. The story "This is the position" is a story of the hero - a participant in the civil war Dybets.