The fifth issue of the audio series, recorded at the Ardis studio, tells about the events of the mid-thirties. At the First Congress of Soviet Writers, Nikolai Bukharin calls Boris Pasternak the first Soviet poet, and a few months before that the exiled Osip Mandelstam was trying to commit suicide. A year later, Kirov was killed, the Stakhanov movement begins. The trial of the Trotskyist-Zinoviev bloc is underway, the Stalinist constitution is adopted, and the Great Terror begins.