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Archangel

by Robert Harris

First published 1998

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Moscow, in the years after the Soviet collapse. British historian Christopher ‘Fluke’ Kelso is attending a conference on the newly opened archives when an elderly former guard claims to know what happened to a private notebook taken from Stalin’s room on the night of his death.

After the witness disappears, Kelso follows the notebook’s trail from Moscow to Arkhangelsk. The search draws him into a nationalist conspiracy built around Stalin’s surviving cult and a secret preserved outside official history, where archival discovery becomes an immediate struggle for political power.

Historical Periods

Soviet Era1922–1991 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction Crime & Mystery Espionage Historical Thriller

Historical people

Joseph Stalin1878–1953

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