Viktor Serge's novel is a kind of Kafkaesque image of the era of Stalinist terror: the accidental and manslaughter of a prominent member of the Central Committee, by a young man, turns into a political event on a global scale, into a terrorist act testifying to the existence of a conspiratorial political opposition in the USSR, which must be suppressed and destroyed. Written in the detective genre, the novel "The Tulaev Case" is a talented historical canvas depicting different layers of Soviet society during the tragic period of Stalinist repressions for the country.