Notes of a Red Guard

By Eduard M. Dune

Book Overview

This compelling never-before-published
account takes the reader into Red Guard and Red Army units, Moscow factories,
workers' homes, and to the unfamiliar world of feudal Dagestan. Worker-revolutionary
Eduard Dune was seventeen when the Russian revolution began. He joined the Bolshevik
party and fought with the Moscow Red Guard during the October revolution. Notes
of a Red Guard is his candid account of what happened through 1921. This
uncensored account offers a rare glimpse of revolutionary Russia from the perspective
of an educated, skilled worker who became a rank-and-file participant.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252062779
• ISBN13: 9780252062773
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Memoir

Dune provides a reasonably objective account of the October Revolution and the Civil War without embellishment or historical name-dropping (Lenin and Trotsky are hardly mentioned). The editors have done history a service by making his writing available in this format.