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The fascinating cold-war masterwork by the Nobel-Prize winner, printed entirely for the very first time Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a phone designed to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who guarantees to provide strategies concerning the nascent Soviet Nuclear Bomb plan. On that same-day, an excellent mathematician is locked away in the Moscow jail that houses the nation's best minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with utilizing their capabilities to sleuth out the owner's identification, and they have to select whether to assist Joseph Stalin's repressive state—or decline and take move to the Siberian Gulag camps. .