About the book: 1971 / Meeting with Maxim Gorky, memories of Gafur Gulyam’s Komsomol youth, the First Congress of Women of Uzbekistan, hujum and other events and people that A. talks about. V. Almatinskaya in her new book reveals the history of the struggle for the establishment of Soviet power, for the implementation of the ideas of V. I. Lenin. The writer focuses on the fate of an Uzbek woman who threw off her burqa and embarked on the path of a new life.