A contemporary person ends up as a trainee at a labor school attached to a workers’ faculty (rabfak) for Genka Kapustin. And it’s 1927—USSR, the NEP—agitation brigades of builders of communist culture wage an unrelenting ideological war against superstition, religious prejudice among peasants, and other obscurantism.
One of these agitation brigades assigns Genka to itself. And all would be fine, but then he understands that darkness and devils exist.
Author’s notes:
This text carries no political, religious, environmental, gender, or any other moral-ethical beliefs. It is also not anti-religious or religious propaganda. In the era of the NEP, the simple everyday life of believers and atheists, and the confrontation of opposing worldviews—here, in this text, all of it should be considered only as a background and exposition for the story itself. The author recommends perceiving the novel “Agitation Brigade” exclusively as entertaining reading.