Red Devils (Russian: Красные дьяволята, also known as The Hunt for Blue Fox, Russian: Охота за голубой лисицей) is a revolutionary adventure story written by the secretary of the Governorate Committee of the Kostroma RCP (B), novelist and screenwriter Pavel Blyakhin in 1921 and published in 1923–1926.
The civil war was coming to an end, but robberies and raids of gangs on trains and food bases continued.
The novel is about the adventures of three young agents, fighters of the 1st Cavalry Army, set against the background of the Russian Civil War and the struggle with the Makhnovist forces.
At the beginning Nestor Makhno and his troops attack the village, committing various crimes, including murdering peasants, robbing huts, stealing livestock and killing Communists.
From all sides the heart of Russia - Moscow - moved numerous hordes of counter-revolution, From the east, the north and south were threatened by foreign invaders who supplied White Army weapons and food.
Urban workers and the rural poor selflessly fought for Soviet power, helped the Red Army and all our partisans than could.