Història de la lluna inapagada

Comrade Nikolai Gavrilov, commander-in-chief of the Red Army and hero of the civil war, who has long suffered from a stomach ulcer but is quite well, receives the order of the Soviet General Staff to to operate both yes and no of his disease. He accepts the order with resignation, anticipating, however, that the outcome may not be as faltering as they predict. Rarely has a novel caused such a major scandal as the one you have in your hands: months before it appeared in Novi Mir magazine in the spring of 1926, Mikhail Frunze, a Bolshevik leader and village commissioner, had died in an operation "advised" by Stalin himself...