History of the city, starting with the February Revolution of 1917: about the victims of the Red Terror of 1918-1921, collectivization, hunger, the Great Terror, the years of the Great Patriotic War, Germans, Cossacks, post-war years. "Khrushchev thaw," events in Novocherkassk in 1962, the time of "Brezhnev stagnation" - according to the author's memoirs. The publication is a continuation of the book "Rostov and Rostov. Journey to 1913."