The novel “The Fiery Cross” (the author labels it as a historical confession) is written on a documentary basis and is devoted to the October Revolution and the Civil War. The author reconsiders, in a new way, the history of the emergence and development of Leninism and Bolshevism in Russia. By accusing Bolshevism of having killed all democratic movements in Russia, Yuri Vlasov points to the tragic consequences that the 1917 revolution brought to the fate of the country.