From the Library of Soviet Short Stories blurb:

What has Uzbekistan to tell us in the stories of her writers included in this small volume?

Uzbekistan has much to relate, for she has a rich history. The beginnings of poetry are marked by the giant figure of Alisher Navai who, in the 15th century, threw out a challenge to the elaborate poetry of the Oriental courts and began to write poetry in all the classical forms of his native, Uzbek, language. The Uzbek writer, Aibek, tells of the great poet and statesman in his novel Navai, some chapters from which are included in this book.

Uzbek women, for the first time in centuries, realized that they were human beings only after the victory of Soviet power in their country. The Uzbek woman was able to talk to Lenin, she was the builder of the new way of life, she became the heroine who fought for the happiness of her people. Such a one is Jurkhan in Askad Mukhtar's novel Sisters of which we give several inspired chapters.

Abdullah Kahhar and the women writers Aidyn, Sa'ida Zunnunova and Rahmat Faizi, each in his or her own way tells of the struggle of the new against the old, of the birth of the free man who has cast off the thralldom of the past and is progressing along the road of happiness.