About the book: year / 1919. The Civil War is breaking out. I, a political worker of the Red Army, was left in Yekaterinoslav for underground work, replacing my last name with the nickname Grigorov, which became my last name for the rest of my life. The traitor betrays me to the thugs of Shkuro’s Wild Division. Interrogations under torture, I lose consciousness several times. They're trying to help me. I was handed over to Ekaterinoslav counterintelligence and placed on death row in a political prison. An unusually diverse composition of prisoners. A cellmate, Makhnovist Karetnikov, talks about Father Makhno. Makhno's army captured Yekaterinoslav with a swift attack, all prisoners were released. In the thick of Makhnovshchina. At the rally I listened to Makhno and the anarchist, the Jew Volin, whose speech made a strong impression on me. Makhnovshchina is a broad peasant movement for the transfer of land to peasants and their economic independence from the central government.