A civil war is the most terrible and cruel thing humanity has ever invented. All moral and ethical foundations collapse: fathers kill their own children, while one group of believers burns others right in churches. And everyone searches for their own truth. “Two Worlds” is the first large-scale work about the Civil War that gained enormous popularity and was republished more than 10 times during the author’s lifetime! The merciless struggle of two worldviews gave birth to one of the most frightening repressive organizations in history—the Cheka. Its employees, sincerely convinced of the righteousness of their cause, the greatness of the new “proletarian” world, literally drowned Russia in blood, fighting for its bright future. And then they themselves were thrown aside onto the roadside of history as unnecessary “splinters.” “A Splinter,” or “The Tale about It and About It,” became the first truthful and terrifying in its authenticity picture of the “class revolutionary struggle,” showing its underside.
Edition of 1958