About the book: 2019 / The autobiographical novel by the famous Soviet writer Mikhail Nikolaevich Alekseev (1918-2007) vividly and talentedly tells about the unforgettable time of childhood, which took place against the backdrop of the life of the Russian village and which coincided with the tragic years of Stalinist collectivization. Through the perception of the child - Mihanka Khokhlova - the author truthfully depicted not only this process itself, but also showed how terrible its consequences were.