In the novel In the First Circle there are four chapters that relate to Stalin and it's quite lengthy. They could be interpreted, I don't think this is correct but they could easily be interpreted as an indulgence on the part of Social Incident to get it off his chest to satirize and poke fun at Stalin. His portrait of Stalin is, I would say Stalin as egotistical buffoon as a petty child as an insecure, all fall to rib. And in some ways it was Solzhenitsyn's criticism or joking about Stalin that put him in the Gulag in the first place which launched all of what happened including Solzhenitsy's successful blackening of that regime at