The book tells how the people of our country, led by the Leninist party, were the first in history to throw off the rule of capital and usher in a new era in the thousand-year annals of mankind. Using documents of those years, the author recreates the flavor of the era and shows how the working class of Russia, in alliance with the working peasantry, overcoming enormous difficulties, carried out its historical mission. Yu. A. Polyakov - corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, author of a number of works on the history of the October Revolution, civil war and socialist construction.