Two Worlds

7 hrs. 53 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Zazubrin

Narrator Alexander Kharitonov

Description

Civil war is the most terrible and cruel of all that humankind has devised. All moral and ethical foundations collapse: fathers kill their own children, and one group of believers burns the other right in churches. And each person seeks their own truth. “Two Worlds” is the first large-scale work about the Civil War that gained immense popularity and was reissued during the author’s lifetime more than 10 times! The ruthless struggle of two worldviews brought into being one of the most terrifying repressive organizations in history— the Cheka. Its employees, sincerely convinced of the righteousness of their cause and the grandeur of the new “proletarian” world, literally drowned Russia in blood in the name of its bright future. And then they, too, were thrown onto the roadside of history as useless “chips.” A “chip,” or “The Tale of It and About It,” became the first truthful and horrifying in its authenticity picture of the “class revolutionary struggle,” showing its underside.

1983 edition