Comrade Churygin Has the Floor by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Short summary

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The peasants in the village rose in revolt — for Grigory Yefimych, the father savior, and the antique statue of Mars. And, as it turned out, they supported the proletarian revolution. Confused a little with the priorities.

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Life in the village of Kuyman ran its course until the echoes of the turbulent events of St. Petersburg reached it. A crippled, legless Yegor returned from the front, bringing with him free-thinking speeches. He said that very soon the war would be over, and along with it the bloodthirsty landlords. Appeared in St. Petersburg, under the Tsar, a wise man — Grigory Yefimych. He will stand up for the people.

A letter arrived from Stepan, a fellow countryman who had become a factory proletarian. The city news stirred the peasants even more. There is no God now, but clever books by Marx. There has been some important murder in St. Petersburg, so changes are coming.

Yegor explained the news to the peasants in his own way: here he is, the benefactor Grigory, acting. So when the villagers heard from a visiting horse-driver that Grigory Yefimych had been killed, they rose in revolt. They went to smash up the landowner’s manor.