"Red Nov" is a collection of texts published in the literary magazine of the same name in the 1920s and devoted to the early Soviet village and new peasant life. In fact, they are an attempt to obtain self-description of huge rural Russia primarily with the help of the "Selkor army" - young writers who came out of the village lower classes. The village at that time was experiencing painful transformations and was fraught with enormous opportunities and dangers, and you can learn about this mysterious and tragic world from Andrei Platonov's Chevengur or the texts collected in this edition.