About the book: 2004 / "The Tale of Troika". The story, at one time consistently rejected by all domestic magazines and publishing houses - for its brilliant social satire, extremely indigestible for the Soviet era... “The Tale of Troika-2”, originally conceived by the Strugatsky brothers as an abbreviated, more “acceptable” version of “The Tale of Troika” - and subsequently degenerated into an independent work with its own, very difficult fate... B. N. Strugatsky talks about the history of the creation and “adventures” of both stories in “Comments on what has been covered”».