About the book: 1953 / The second volume of the collected works of the Soviet writer P. A. Pavlenko includes the novels “Happiness” and “In the East.” The novel “Happiness” tells about the life of the village and former front-line soldiers in war and post-war times. In the first book of the novel “Workers of the World,” published posthumously, the writer realized his long-cherished plan: to show the construction of the Great Fergana Canal.