BLACK BOLSHEVIK is the whirlwind story of an incredible life. As a Black communist organizer in the 1920s through the 1950s, Harry Haywood saw the rise of the Soviet Union to a global power, fought fascists in Spain, and helped shift the line of the entire Communist Party towards one of national self-determination for the oppressed Black people of the United States. His riveting and readable autobiography should be required for any communist today, both for his first-hand accounts of our communist history but also for his still relevant, still necessary insights about organizing, race, and the struggle for a better world.