Fear is the passionate and powerful story of Sasha Pankratov, a Russian student unjustly arrested in 1934. No longer an idealistic youth, it vividly evokes his exile in Siberia and his eventual return to the madness of the Great Purge, the Stalinist nightmare) (The stunning, long-awaited sequel of Children of the Arbat, "the most important work of fiction by a Soviet author since Doctor Zhivago" (Time)