''R.V.S.'' () is a short novel by

Arkady Gaidar Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (russian: link=no, Арка́дий Петро́вич Гайда́р, born Golikov, russian: link=no, Го́ликов; – 26 October 1941) was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet chil ...

, first published in 1926, in the

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-based newspaper ''Zvezda'' (issues 83-97) which the author worked as the correspondent of at the time. Also in 1926 it was released as a separate book by Gosizdat Publishers. This was only the 2nd published work by Gaidar and his first one addressed to the young readership. The book's title is an abbreviation of ''Revvoyensovet'' ("

Revolutionary Military Council The Revolutionary Military Council (russian: Революционный Военный Совет, Revolyutsionny Voyenny Sovyet, Revolutionary Military Council), sometimes called the Revolutionary War Council Brian PearceIntroductionto Fyodor ...

"). Ebin, F. Commentaries. The Works of A.P.Gaidar in 4 Volumes. Detskaya Literatura, 1964. Vol I, p. 362-362

Summary

A small Ukrainian village is caught in the middle of the Russian Civil War turmoil, the Reds (Bolsheviks), the Whites (the White Army) and the Greens (the

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessari ...

s, the nationalists, the

SRs SRS or SrS may stand for: Organizations and companies * Savez Radio-Amatera Srbije, a Serbian amateur radio organization * Sea Research Society, for diving and underwater archaeology * Serbian Radical Party (''Srpska radikalna stranka''), a poli ...

) ousting each other in quick succession. Two boys, Dimka and Zhigan, discover an injured Red Army officer in an old barn and start helping him with food and medicine. Anticipating the inevitable enemy onslaught, they manage to bring a Red Army Unit in to rescue the injured man who happens to be a Revvoyensovet commander (his personal R.V.S.-stamped blank given for boys to serve as a password).R.V.S. The Works of A.P.Gaidar in 4 Volumes. Detskaya Literatura, 1964. Vol I, pp. 41-92

References

1926 Russian novels Russian children's novels 1926 children's books Novels set during the Russian Civil War Novels set in Ukraine Children's books set in Ukraine Children's books set in the 20th century {{1920s-child-novel-stub