“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” - this phrase comes up when you think about the fate of fiery revolutionaries. Their life path is instructive, because revolutions very often “devour their children,” and post-revolutionary reality does not always correspond to pre-revolutionary dreams. This book presents biographies of 100 famous revolutionaries and anarchists from the 17th century to those living today. These are geniuses and villains, adventurers and romantics of the revolution, great ideologists who shaped the spiritual image of our world, pacifists who excluded violence against people even in the name of imaginary freedom, dictators, terrorists... They all wanted to create a new world and a new person. But... “the revolution is prepared by idealists, carried out by fanatics, and scoundrels enjoy its fruits,” said Bismarck. History has repeatedly confirmed the correctness of this aphorism.