The end of the first book of the novel "Lenin" is "Lenin. 1917". After the victory of the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, came to power. But maintaining power is more difficult than seizing it. The escaped Kerensky moved the Third Cossack Corps from the front to Petrograd. Lenin and Trotsky organize resistance. But in the meantime, behind their backs, treason was brewing in the Central Committee. In Russia, the victorious march of Soviet power is combined with the first lightning of the approaching civil war.