num_pages: 328
description: 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. 
language: English
title: Notes of a Red Guard
publisher: University of Illinois Press