“Accursed Days” is one of the harshest and most uncompromising books about the events of the seventeenth year (1917). For a long time it was not published in our country. These, as the author himself assessed them, extremely “biased” records reflect the terrible events of the first years after October’s Russia in a perspective unfamiliar to us (even in today’s time). Instead of the “heroic revolutionary masses,” we see a dissolute, frantic gang of robbers; instead of their “fiery leaders,” we encounter petty, bloodthirsty “scoundrels.” We face a very unflattering image of “the people,” from which one could make “both a club and an icon.” The book is frightening and bitter, yet at the same time filled with the author’s devoted love for his suffering homeland.