V knige rasskazyvayetsya o maloizvestnykh faktakh istorii grazhdanskoy voyny i interventsii na zapade Sovetskoy respubliki v 1918-1919 gg. Na obshirnom dokumental'nom materiale pokazano, kakiye slozhnyye politicheskiye i voyennyye problemy prishlos' reshat' Kommunisticheskoy partii pri organizatsii zashchity zapadnykh rubezhey strany, kak byli sorvany antisovetskiye plany mezhdunarodnogo imperializma pod Petrogradom, v Pribaltike i Belorussii.