About the book: 1980 / The novel-chronicle of the famous Soviet prose writer and publicist Boris Mozhaev (1923 - 1996) is dedicated to the years of collectivization - turning point events in the life of the Russian village, when it was broken, actually plundered, ruined. The author shows extremely truthfully and without embellishment how the usual way of life and the destinies of the people of a small Ryazan village, just beginning to develop thanks to the NEP, are being disrupted with the announcement of a campaign for the mass creation of collective farms.