About the book: 2003 / The novel by modern writer Oleg Benyukh covers more than fifty years of Soviet history. Written in a fascinating and dynamic way, the novel is replete with a large number of characters and plot lines, but a successful compositional structure allows the reader to successfully navigate the events described. One of the main characters of the novel is N. S. Khrushchev (1894-1971): a shepherd, a mechanic of one of the Donbass factories, battalion commissar, secretary of the party committee of the Industrial Academy, secretary of the Moscow State Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, member of the Military Council, chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine and, finally, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.