The book is dedicated to Stalin and Stalinism. In addition to the author's interviews with those who personally knew the "leader of the peoples" - his adopted son Artem Sergeev, the last Kremlin People's Commissar Nikolai Baybakov, Sergo Mikoyan, Nikolai Bukharin's widow Anna Bukharina-Larina, Sergei Mikhalkov - the book includes fragments of conversations on a sick and still relevant topic with Karl's daughter Radek Sophia, artist Mikhail Shemyakin, French socialist philosopher Roger Garody, writer Eduard Limonov and others. The book uses letters, poems, photographs on the theme of Stalinism from the author's archive.