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Contra, a novel by Józef Mackiewicz
Original Polish title: Kontra
Rights status: available for all languages less Polish.
Published by: Hungarian - Attraktor, Polish - Kontra
A novel about the Cossacks, both citizens of the Soviet Union and political émigrés, who fought against the USSR in the Soviet-German War but were subsequently handed over by the Allies in accordance with the Yalta agreement.
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The Second Day, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1932)
Publishers: Germany - VOLK UND WELT (1958), Portugal – BLOCH (1974), USA/UK - HIPPOCRENE BOOKS (1972), OCTAGON BOOKS (1978)
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The Second Day (Den Vtoroi, sometimes translated as "Out of Chaos") is a day-to-day account of the harsh conditions of life and heroic efforts of workers to overcome nature's resistance as they built a blast furnace in Kuznetsk, Russia. In the novel, a weak dreamer tries to fit in with the more dedicated workers but fails. He becomes complicit in an act of vandalism. Ashamed of his own spiritual bankruptcy, he commits suicide.