About the book: 1953 / Louis Aragon's novel "Communists" completes the author's "Real World" series. In “The Communists” we meet the heroes of Aragon already familiar to us: the banker Wisner from “The Bells of Basel”, Armand Barbentan from “The Rich Quarters”, Jean-Blaise Marcadier from “Passengers of the Imperial”, Aurélien from the novel of the same name. The Communists depicts one of the most tragic periods of French history (1939–1940). In the foreground are Armand Barbentan and his friends, communists, people who do not lose their presence of mind under any life shocks, not only exposing the old world, but also transforming it. The novel “Communists” is a novel of socialist realism, a political novel of a wide range. The development of the plot is strictly documented by real historical events, right down to the actions of individual military units. A novel about the past, but looking to the future. In "Communists" Aragon confirms the validity of his conviction in the need for the artist to invade life, in the need to show the fate of the heroes as a great national fate. Over the years since the book was published, many rules of the Russian language have changed. When designing an fb2 file, the original spelling and style of the book are preserved as much as possible. Only obvious typos have been corrected.