Kuzma Chorny's path to great literature was winding and difficult, thorny paths that led him to the heights of artistic culture. But in a long, difficult search, a great realist artist grew up, rightfully taking one of the first places in Belarusian Soviet literature. With thought and feeling, having comprehended folk life, Chorny created wonderful works that are a living page of our history. The struggle against the kulaks, the re-education of people burdened with remnants of the past, the spiritual maturation of a new person - this is the main range of issues of interest to the writer in the "Third Generation." Exposing in the images of Skuratovich's fist and his laborer Tvoritsky the world of money-grubbing, Kuzma Chorny at the same time shows the huge role of socialist labor in the re-education of man (Tvoritsky, tailor), in the formation of new relations between people based on feelings of camaraderie, collectivism, humanity (Zosya, Irina, Nesterovich)...