Istoriya XX veka chasto predstavlyaetsya nam naborom zavershyonnykh sobytiy, lishyonnykh pryamoy svyazi s segodnyashnim dnyom.No stoit sdvinut' neskol'ko kirpichey etoy postroyki - i pod privychnoy kartinoy otkryvayutsya te zhe mekhanizmy, ta zhe volya k vlasti, te zhe oshibki i soblazny.V etom smysle romany Aleksandra Shabashkevicha - redkiy primer khudozhestvennykh proizvedeniy, kotorye pokazyvayut nepreryvnost' istoricheskogo opyta, soedinyaya epokhi ne lozungami, a sud'bami lyudey.V etoy knige net geroizatsii. Net ideologicheskikh skhem. Est' postupok - kak nravstvennaya kategoriya, i pamyat' - kak edinstvennoe, chto delaet postupok osmyslennym.Yuriy Fel'shtinskiy,doktor istoricheskikh nauk
