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).
This later version was considerably revised: it featured the new chapter "Unbelievable!"
), 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.