About the book: 1989 / The authors called their work a chronicle novel in monologues and documents. The events of the February Revolution of 1917 are given in it through the eyes of participants and eyewitnesses, representatives various political camps. The reader finds himself in the epicenter of events, witnesses powerful demonstrations of the St. Petersburg proletariat, the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, convulsive attempts by bourgeois leaders to save the monarchy, the creation, on the one hand, of the executive committee of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, on the other, the Provisional Government. Monologues B . I. Lenin help the reader to visually and realistically understand the true meaning of what is happening, to feel the dynamics of the revolutionary events leading to the Great October Revolution..