Die at dawn. Shalashov E.

1920s, the beginning of the NEP. In the native village, located near Cherepovets, Ivan Nikolaev, a man with a rich biography, returns. He managed to be both an officer of the Russian army during the war with the Germans, and the red commander in the civilian, and serve in the transport check. For a long time he did not appear at home, but did not even imagine how much everything changed in the village. People live in poverty, drive moonshine from rotten potatoes, hide a captured weapon remaining after two wars, and in rare hours of leisure they scold Soviet power, which only knows how to close the churches and rename the streets. Ivan Nikolaev looks at all this and does not want to serve the Soviet government anymore, even if an old front -line friend offered him a position...

the story told in the novel is based on real events and is supplemented by genuine documents of that time. < /p>