Our contemporary falls into the hands of a student of the labor school at the workers' faculty, Genka Kapustin. And the year is 1927, the USSR, NEP, propaganda brigades of the cultural builders of communism are waging a merciless ideological war against superstitions, religious prejudices among the peasants, and other obscurantism. Genka is assigned to one of these propaganda brigades. And everything would be fine, but then he understands that darkness and demons exist. Author's notes: This text does not carry any political, religious, environmental, gender or any other moral and ethical beliefs. It is also not anti-religious or religious propaganda. The times of the New Economic Policy, the simple life of believers and atheists, the confrontation between polar worldviews - in this text, all this should be considered only as a background and exposition to history itself. The author recommends that the novel “Agitation Brigade” be perceived exclusively as entertaining reading. Cover author - Mikhail