About the book: 1978 / The story "Good News" tells about the dramatic life of one of the first Marxists in Ukraine, Yuvenaly Dmitrievich Melnikov, who was dedicated to the revolution until the end. Using little-known archival documents, the author paints a true picture of the revolutionary movement of the Kharkov and Kyiv proletariat at the end of the last century, shows its inextricable ties with the all-Russian revolutionary movement.