About the book: 1977 / With this novel about V.V. Kuibyshev - a remarkable figure of the Communist Party, comrade-in-arms of V.I. Lenin - writer Mikhail Kolesnikov completes his a trilogy about the heroes of the civil war (previously, our publishing house published the novels “All Hurricanes in the Face” - about M. V. Frunze - and “Without Fear and Reproach” - about D. A. Furmanov. The novels were awarded the literary prize of the USSR Ministry of Defense). V.V. Kuibyshev appears in the book as a seasoned proletarian revolutionary, a prominent political leader of the Red Army during the Civil War, and then as one of the outstanding organizers of the struggle for the implementation of Lenin’s plan for the industrialization of the country.