About the book: 2021 / New book by the famous Russian writer-marinist Vladimir Shigin "The intoxication of power. Revolver, alcohol and cocaine. 1917”, is dedicated to a little-studied page of Russian history - the confrontation between revolutionary sailors and Bolsheviks at the end of 1917 - beginning of 1918. For many decades, the fact of this political and sometimes armed confrontation between the recent allies of the October Revolution of 1917 was deliberately hushed up. All this time they tried to present the sailors of the revolution as almost part of the Bolshevik party. In fact, most of the sailors, already soon after October 1917, were with V.I.’s party. Lenin in open confrontation. The author for the first time reveals unknown details of the move (and in fact, flight) from Petrograd to Moscow of the Soviet government in 1918, tells a lot of new things about the anti-Bolshevik sailor mutinies in Petrograd and Moscow, about the unknown pages of the Ice Campaign of the Baltic Fleet and the tragic death of the Black Sea Fleet. V. Shigin also gives many little-known interesting facts about the provocative role that sailors played in the outbreak of the Civil War. The book “The Rapture of Power. Revolver, alcohol and cocaine,” like all of V. Shigin’s works, is written in good literary language, and therefore is a fascinating and easy read. Without a doubt, V. Shigin’s new book “The Rapture of Power. Revolver, alcohol and cocaine. 1917" will be of interest to everyone who is interested in both the history of the Russian fleet and the history of revolutionary Russia.