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Just finished the book.
Boris Gindin was the officer in charge of the Storozhevoy's engineering section when the zampolit on the ship, Valery Samblin, conducted a mutiny with the aim of driving the ship to Leningrad in order to deliver a message about the corruptness of the bureaucracy and how the USSR has strayed from true Marxist-Leninist principles. Naturally, Moscow does not take kindly to this, and sends out the rest of the Baltic fleet and several air squadrons to destroy the ship. The books is told mainly from Gindin's recollections of the event.
A fast read (told in a novel-like manner, one should be careful to not mix up lines where Gindin is speaking as the book was written as opposed to what he said during the incident), it's not the most academic of books, with the bibliography consisting of quite a bit of Wikipedia entries (mainly on technical stuff such as aircraft designations). It no doubt uses significant leeway in regards to purported conversations held between the members of the upper-level command. A large part of the book is devoted to Gindin's life before the event, and is quite useful for getting a feel of life in the USSR at the time.
If you can pick this book up for cheap or from the library, I would recommend doing so. It's certainly a subject that has almost no attention given to it.
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