The famous work of V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko on the events of the Revolution and the Civil War. After 1938 (i.e. after the execution of Antonov-Ovseenko, as a Trotskyist), the book was withdrawn from all free access libraries and is now a rarity, still unpublished, but often cited by Civil War researchers. The book contains the rarest photos of such participants in those events as Sivers, Sablin, Krivoshlykov, Golubov, etc., which are practically absent in the historical document flow, photocopies and comments by I.A. Marchenko