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«Village in the Abyss» by Ihor Kachurovsky is a generalised image of the Ukrainian village of the 1920s and 1930s, impoverished to the point of destitution as a result of Stalinist collectivisation and dekulakisation, and bled dry by the artificial Holodomor, and at the same time it is a memory of a specific village of Kruty in Chernihiv region, the native village of the poet's mother, where during the war, in a short break between two periods of exile - Kursk and Austrian - the author heard from his fellow countrymen a terrible story about the innocent victims of Soviet rule.

Dressing these macabre subjects in the garb of the written word, Kachurovsky once again demonstrates his commitment to the refined stylistic principles of the Kyiv neoclassical school, achieving a plum visionary specificity of the imagery.

The poem is accompanied by a foreword by Ivan Dziuba and an afterword by the author - «General Reconstruction of the Ukrainian Village in the Years 1929-1933» - where the Holodomor and dekulakisation are told not in the language of artistic images, but in the language of facts and figures.