Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat (novel)

At the beginning of 1921 , when GOKHRAN , the repository of values, already exists, it turns out that diamonds regularly disappear. Someone steals them, perhaps a person from among privileged employees. Everything is complicated by the fact that the USSR intends to offer stones to the French jeweler Marchand in exchange for food for starving Russia. To solve the issue of the deal, an employee of GOHRAN Pozhamchi leaves for Revel; to solve the issue of the theft of stones, a young employee of the Cheka, Vsevolod Vladimirov. He must begin the search where the smuggling point is located. Count Vorontsov (who once worked for Pozhamchi) exerts pressure on the train to Pozhamchi and demands to secretly transfer part of the money from the sale of stones. He is planning an attack on GOKHRAN. German intelligence in the person of Otto Nolmar decides to disrupt the deal with Marchand, thereby weakening Russia. Vladimirov (Isaev) is arrested, and Nolmar tries to break the deal through Vorontsov (through the same Pozhamchi, for example). Meanwhile, in Moscow, Cheka employees are stepping on another employee, Shelehes, who also stole stones. His brother is a resident in Revel Roman. He can remain silent, and then a deal will be broken, and millions of people will die. He can put pressure on Marchand, who Shelehes knew personally, and Shelehes will die, but the deal will be made ...

The novel was twice filmed: Isaev and Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat .