Vladimir Yakovlevich Zubtsov (1895–1938), also known as the talented Russian writer Vladimir Zazubrin, himself survived all the horrors of the Civil War, having fought in Kolchak’s army, in the red cavalry, and in the Cheka-GPU. The book includes the best works of the writer. The novel “Mountains” (1925) is about the fate of two brothers, Ivan and Fyodor Bezugly, native Siberians who fought for the freedom of their native land, but perceived the new Soviet government very differently. The story “Sliver” (1923), or “The Tale of Her and About Her,” was the first, truthful and terrible in its authenticity, picture of the “class revolutionary struggle”, showing its wrong side. The theme of the story is also related to the story “Pale Truth” - a simple and terrible in its hopelessness story of a man who wanted to live “by the truth”, and not by new revolutionary laws.