The Red Commissars, communists of the 1930s, receive the most important task: to travel back to the 18th century and join the uprising of Emelyan Pugachev. Will they, using all their knowledge, be able to defeat Suvorov himself, lead Pugachev’s army to victory, overthrow the autocracy, infect the poor of Catherine’s era with the ideas of Marxism-Leninism and begin building a “new life”? Nobody knows how this adventure will end. A truly terrible war is breaking out between the heroic army of the Russian Empire and a huge army of Cossacks and peasants singing “The Internationale”. The forces seem to be equal, and each side has its own truth...