Cement

If you give the cement well, it will hold. Cement is us. Cement is working class.

Fyodor Gladkov's legendary novel Cement , which tells about the fights and transformations in a provincial city after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and under civil war conditions, has become one of the most read and discussed works of contemporary Russian literature and the social realist movement.

On the one hand, those who put forth everything they have for the benefit of society; On the other hand, those who pursue their own interests with their profiteers, posers, thieves and bureaucrats...

On the one hand, the messengers, soldiers and leaders of the "new society";
On the other hand, the dregs, residues and stains of the "old society"...

In Gladkov's novel, which can be read in one breath, in the middle of the destruction brought by the civil war, along with cities, buildings and factories,
People are literally being "reconstructed".

Although the main protagonist is a male worker who finishes his military service and returns to his town, women's place in the struggle, their rise and leadership, and their ability to overcome men's domination and brutality, as well as other social problems, have a central place in Cement .

Problems caused by the "New Economic Policy", also known as NEP, and discussions about "returning to capitalism"; the possibilities of resurrecting production in a town whose factory was handed over to goats after the civil war; “selection commissions” and decisions to expel from the party; the ebb and flow of relations between workers and party leaders and bureaucrats; intellectuals' contributions to the struggle and their dilemmas; the possibilities of freedom in the union of men and women; In short, the multifaceted pains of a reconstruction process now meet with readers once again among the pages of Çimento ...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Original Name: Цемент (Tsement)

Media Type: Paperback