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Flags on the Battlements (Russian: Флаги на башнях, romanized: Flagi na bashnyakh) is a novella by Anton Makarenko, written in 1938 and published the same year in Krasnaya Nov magazine (issues 6-8). In 1939 the book came out as a separate edition through Khudozhestvennaya Literatura. This later version was considerably revised: it featured the new chapter "Unbelievable!" (Не может быть!), while one of the final chapters of the magazine-published version ("For the Rest of Our Lives", На всю жизнь) has been removed. The book was translated into English under the title Learning to Live.

Flags on the Battlements could be seen as a sequel to the 1932 novella March of the 30th Year and continues the story of the Dzerzhinsky Colony. The action in it takes place in 1931-1932.

References

1. "Anton Semyonovich Makarenko". The Makarenko site. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
2. Ternavsky, A. Commentaries to Флаги на башнях. The Works by A.S. Makarenko in 5 volumes. Vol.5, p. 459 // Собрание сочинений А.С. Макаренко в пяти томах. Библиотека "Огонек". Изд. "Правда". 1971. Т. 3, стр. 459

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