About the book: 1955 / Mark Aldanov is a brilliant Russian writer-historian of the 20th century, he was the author of works unsurpassed in authenticity (the writer spent a lot of time in archives) and depth understanding the lives of great people of the past and present. During the author’s lifetime, the story was published only in an abbreviated magazine version. These chapters are a response to a major historical event, the death of Stalin. The author made the hero, an international adventurer, remember his meetings with Stalin. He included these chapters in the English translation of his story. The novel describes the uprising in the Soviet zone of occupied Berlin in the summer of 1953.