Mikhail Pervukhin, an old bolshevik fellow traveller, escapes to Italy, learns Italian and pulls the European reader into the horror of the End of Russia and her new beginning. Going over all the main figures of the Russian Revolution, the encroaching dread exterminating the life from these vast lands and the vultures that feast on the carcass of a civilization now dead, now clawing through the mud and the roots of doubt and into history once more! Who were the bolsheviks? What happened during the revolution? Who were the major players and where did they come from? What happens when you lose? All these questions shall be answered in Bolsheviks.

This book was originally published in Italian in 1918 under the title I Bolscevichi. This is the first ever translation of this work into English. In this book, the ex-bolshevik Pervukhin provides his perspective on the Russian revolution and a personal portrait of 10 different Bolshevik leaders and activists, with whom he dealt during his time in that movement. The book also comes with 11 pieces of interior artwork by S. D. Smith.