Adventure it was, and one of the most marvellous mankind ever embarked upon, sweeping into history at the head of the toiling masses, and staking everything on their vast and simple desires. Already the machinery had been set up by which the land of the great estates could be distributed among the peasants.
The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution, whence he delivers one of the great stories of the twentieth century.