About the book: 1932 / ...This book contains essays written in the wake of living life in 1929. Birobidzhan was then wild and deserted. The small indigenous population, ossified in old economic forms, turned out to be powerless to fight nature and the untold riches of the region lay untouched in the taiga. The first steps of the Soviet colonialist were difficult, very difficult. Difficulties were created by nature, human indiscretion and human inexperience. They stood like a blank wall…