244pp. Red cloth-covered boards, white titles on spine. Bumped spine ends and corners. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Paper dust jacket has shelf wear, sun faded spine, some loss, chipping to edges, price unclipped. 12mo. Includes stories by eight of the best known Soviet writers, who reflect with great truthfulness the turmoil and struggles of the heroic period of Soviet history, as well as the subsequent changes in human relationships and attitudes which resulted from new beliefs and the new philosophy of life.