The secret speech
By: Tom Rob Smith
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780857204097; 9781849834865
Subjects: Leo Demidov (Fictitious character); Fiction; History
Description: Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime isbeginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature.
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

Contains interview with Tom Rob Smith.

Includes bibliographical references.