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.