«Fires over the country»

The article is a review of the album by Moscow historians A. V. Repnikov and R. G. Gagkuev “The Great and Terrible Year 1918: Illustrated Chronicle of the Beginning of the Civil War in Russia”, published in 2022 by the Moscow publishing house “Yauza”. The author points out both the high printing level of the album, the non–trivial illustrative series, and the exceptionally strong and professionally executed text of the album, which is, in fact, a chronicle of the outbreak of the Russian Civil War. On the pages of the album, all the most important key events of 1918 are analyzed in detail, the activities of key personalities of that period are examined, and the the programmatic attitudes of the most influential political parties, the views on events of both prominent contemporaries and ordinary citizens. According to the author, the album is an important contribution to the historiography of the problem.