Staliin dies, and chaos breaks out. The leading men of the Soviet Union now try to get the biggest possible bite of the apple.
There's Malenkov, who fears for his life the one day, after accidentally asking for a companion who has been sent to the Gulag years ago. A few days later, he finds himself in Stalin's position.
There's Beria, the boss of the secret service, now the inofficial leader and most powerful man at the table. A quite unstable position, though,as there's also Krushchev, who will eventually end up as Stalin's successor after the events occur.
The plot is delivered with dark humor, not really trying to dig deep into Soviet history rather than delivering a political satire than from time to times becomes grotesque. The events linked to the main plot are at times truly shocking and dark, yet held humorously by the main plot of Krushchev and Beria intriguing around Malenkov in a political arm wrestling which will put one of them in charge of being the new political leader, and the other one dead.
Review of The Death of Stalin
