The chronicle novel “Two Worlds” by the well-known Siberian writer V. Ya. Zazubrin (1895–1938) is devoted to events of the Civil War in Siberia, when the Red Army and the partisans of the Taseev Republic—defending the gains of the revolution—crushed the Kolchak bands and established Soviet power.
In the novel, the liberation of Siberia from the Whites is shown vividly, convincingly, and uniquely; the clash of “two worlds”—the old and the new; the romantic pathos of revolutionary struggle; the party’s organizing and directing role.
The novel was first published in 1921 and is the first major work of Soviet literature that received high praise from V. I. Lenin and M. Gorky.