Author Description

This is the fourth book in the series whose title references a phrase by the poet Osip Mandelstam “The Wolfhound Century Leaps on My Neck”. Gavriil Popov analyzes the second stage of Stalin’s Soviet socialism – the period during the Great Patriotic War of 1941 – 1945. The author wants to prove that there were actually three wars combined in one, led by Joseph Stalin himself under the guise of the Great Patriotic War. The publication of this book in Russia has created a storm of polemics in the media and triggered an attempt of the authorities to prosecute the author, which was unsuccessful.