"Conspiracy" is the fourth of the "bush" novels conceived by Alexey Ivanov. The first – "Experience No. 1918", the second – "The Witches' Cauldron", the third – "Lilith's Children" and the last, fifth – a novel about the blockade "Save, O Lord, Thy People" were published in 2019-2022.In the history of Russia, which did not know easy and quiet periods, the years 1936-1941 were distinguished not only by the peak of mass arrests, summary executions and exile, special cruelty, heavy oppression of repression, but also by a series of bright and outwardly confused international events, often provoked by two powers, empires reborn from the military revolutionary dust: The Soviet Union and Germany.The rise of fascists to power in Germany, the war in Spain, the annexation of Austria, the Munich Agreement, the seizure of the Sudetenland by Germany and the defeat of Czechoslovakia, the sluggish inarticulate policy of European leaders – France and England, the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty, the partition of Poland, the "winter war" with Finland – all this is only the visible result of the most complex diplomatic and political actions, intrigues, successful and failed plans.How to survive in this crazy flow of time and events, the realm of lies and betrayal, how to save life, family, good name? How not to plunge into the abysses and failures of fear – for yourself, children, loved ones? This knowledge was acquired by our compatriots in the hardest, most painful and bloody way.