Tvardovsky had absolute civility and the artistic ability to reflect his era in literature. He went from a man who completely trusted the existing system to a poet who could not put up with destructive trends in society. The book includes the poem “Ant Country” (1934 - 1936), after the release of which Tvardovsky gained fame, and poems from the cycle “Rural Chronicle”, thematically adjacent to the poem, as well as A. Tvardovsky’s article “About the “Country of Ant”. The poem is dedicated to collectivization, the difficult path of the peasant to a new way of life. Ant is presented as a country of peasant, peasant, proprietary happiness, as opposed to the collective farm, where a person, as if he is deprived of “independence”, “independence”, where “everyone is cut with the same brush”, as was instilled in the average peasant in the first years of collectivization by people hostile to it, kulaks and sub-kulaks. In the center of the poem is the ordinary peasant Nikita Morgunok. the love for work, for his native land is strong, but at the same time he is still in the grip of possessive prejudices - he strives to become an independent “owner”, he is still frightened by collective farm life, he is afraid of losing his simple well-being acquired through hard work. The return of Morgunk, who was convinced by the facts of the new reality that there is no and cannot be a good life outside the collective farm, gave the name “Ant’s Country” a new meaning - Ant’s as that “country”, that collective-farm happy life that the hero finds as a result of his search.