SKYSCRAPERS OF SOCIALISM

Whatever resolution was adopted in Moscow, as a rule, it was immediately reacted to in Almaty. It just so happened that from the first days of Soviet power, the decisions of numerous congresses and plenums, of which there were many, came flying over Russian villages and territories of other republics, without stopping once in the expanses of the state, ending …

THE CONFRONTATION

The denouement between Yerezhep and Yelemes happened on the seventh of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty-six. Only on the face of it did it begin suddenly. In reality, the fight could reasonably have started at any minute of the day or night in recent years. Circumstances, as they sometimes do, just did not seem to …

OPERATION STATUE

No sooner had Party Secretary Zhanaidarov entered his office in the early hours of the morning, combed his hair, brushed the traces of dandruff from his shoul- ders and sat down in a chair, than the telephone rattled loudly in the corner to his right, as if just waiting for him to arrive. ‘Long distance,’ thought Zhanaidarov, picking up the …