The author of this book, Vladlen Terentyevich Loginov, is a Soviet and Russian historian, a specialist in the history of the October Revolution and the Civil War, and a film playwright. The book is dedicated to the last period of the life and work of V.I. Lenin - from the end of the Civil War in Russia to Lenin’s “testament”. Often authors, writes V.T. Loginov, telling about certain historical figures, is in a hurry to tell the world not what these personalities thought about, what they wrote, said and did, not about the circumstances under which this happened and what was the general context of history, but about what do they, the authors, think about this? V.T. Loginov set himself a different task: “To convey to the reader what Lenin did, said, wrote, and thought about in these difficult years. Hence the abundance of quotes, which, of course, complicates the narrative, but it is much better if the reader, reflecting on Lenin’s texts, comes to some conclusions himself, rather than pushing into him something digested in someone else’s head.”