Excerpt from Oleg Budnitsky’s book “Red and White” The new book of the historian Oleg Budnitsky included the biographical essays of the figures of the Civil War from both sides, the collective portraits of famous military formations and the “stop cadre” of sign events. We publish a fragment dedicated to not the most famous page in the life of Samuel Marshak-his early socio-political poetry, which sometimes sounds extremely topically.

What to ask in book Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies. In this situation, it is extremely important to preserve at least the remnants of culture and support the values ​​of humanism - including for the sake of the future of Russia. Therefore, the editorial office of Gorky will continue to talk about books, reminding our readers that the world remains in the world and fiction. UNELMA KONKA. Eternal sadness.

About the book of Ilya Falkovsky "In the footsteps of Burkhan Shahidi" In 1949, the Government of East Turkestan, led by a native of the Russian Empire, Burkhan Shahidi, decided to join the PRC. Today, on the site of the former republic, there is a Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region. The whole world spoke of Uyghur autonomy when it turned out that its indigenous inhabitants were massively driven into the “Campaign camps”.