Before you is a book about the political history of the 20th century, the smartest and most talented, full of sensational information and deep thoughts about the fate of mankind, and at the same time fascinating as the best detective story. Events, ideas, personalities are described by the author with documentary accuracy. Before you will pass an exciting kaleidoscope of events unfamiliar or poorly understood due to suffocating censorship in the past or political conjuncture in the present. The October Revolution and the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War and the Cultural Revolution in China - you look at all this after reading this book as if you had never heard of these events.