About the book: 1965 / One small mistake, a careless step and... failure. All counterintelligence agencies in the world begin to hunt for the underground revolutionary. Vladivostok in those years was swarming with American, Japanese, Canadian and other interventionists and White Guards of all stripes and shades. In such an environment, the “Lodz merchant” F.I. worked in Vladivostok. Ivanov, then Mikhailov, Fedorov, but in fact one and the same person - underground communist V.M. Elesh. Essentially, this book is an autobiographical story that tells about the formation of the communist worldview, about youth, the formation of a revolutionary during the period of intervention and the White Guard. In his “Notes” V. Elesh showed the historical situation in which the Bolsheviks had to work, painted unforgettable images his comrades in the struggle, spoke about how, in these dangerous conditions, they managed to reveal the deepest secrets of their enemies and win. The author interprets some historical events in his own way (the Hyde uprising, the People's Assembly of Primorye), and the editors provide their explanations on this matter in the notes. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, especially young men and women. The author expresses his heartfelt gratitude to the participants in the revolutionary events in the Far East A.P. Alyutin, A.P. Baryshnikov, N.N. Bakhvalov, P.K. Volgin, N.K. Ilyukhov, I. P. Samusenko, I. Z. Sidorov, N.I. Gorikhin, A.Ya. Klimov, A.T. Yakimov, V.L. Klimenko and other comrades for their help in working on the book..