The book "Leaders" includes detailed biographies of the largest figures of Soviet Russia who were on the Russian political Olympus from 1917 to 1924. The book is compiled uniquely from the point of view of its content: biographies of political figures of that era are given either in their own presentation, or written by their close associates, or set forth by ideological opponents of the Bolsheviks. The author also gives his detailed commentary on the biographies and the facts and events set out in them. Of greatest interest in this regard are the biographies of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin. The book "Leaders" contains a lot of factual material related to the history of both the Bolshevik Party and the young Soviet state. Through the prism of biographies of famous political figures, many important events from the history of Russia of the 1920s are visible. XX century