shing House Ltd., 2018
Author's Note
February and October 1917.
Two parts of the same whole.
The bullets shot from one gun.
Steps of one stairway leading to Russia's collapse.
A lot of questions haven't been answered yet.
It is still unclear how this thing, which should never have happened, came to pass.
To this day Russia hasn't completely recovered from the mayhem of those days.
After all, the USSR falling apart in 1991 is the direct consequence of what happened in 1917.
We've never learnt the truth about those days.
We haven't acknowledged how and why our state, the Russian Empire, collapsed.
We haven't learnt the lessons of the February and the October days.
And the catastrophe recurred, albeit not as bloody, not as crucial.
And today we hear new calls for resolution of Russia's problems through revolution.
The tragedies have been forgotten, the lessons haven't been learnt, the real number of victims is shrouded in secrecy.
Revolution is not about happy protesters and the collapsed state regime.
Revolution is about millions of victims, hunger, and illnesses, it is about the civil war, the fronts, where the "freed" Russians were sent to shortly after.
No revolution should ever happen again in our lands.
And that is why we need to understand how it happened before. Who is the orchestrator of our revolution?
Can a revolution have an orchestrator?
That is the main mystery of the Russian Revolution…
Chapter 1
Dark Spot in the History of the Russian Revolution
The revolutionary October and February are inseparable on the calendar of the Russian Revolution just as they are on the calendar of nature. These are two links of one chain, fever and ulcers of the same plague.
It's bad enough to be enemies with Anglo-Saxons, but it's even worse to be friends with them.
Almost 90 years have passed after the February and the October Revolutions, but it is still not clear why and how the powerful Russian Empire fell into oblivion. Whenever you study the history of the Russian Revolution, you will find dark spots here and there. Historians have come up with lots of explanations about those events. And lo and behold, as the social and political structure changes, these explanations change, too. They are as substantial and convincing as before, but their essence becomes directly opposite. It is much like whenever a judge changed, the person on trial and the proof system would change, too. These explanations are like rings on the water – they remain atop, and it is all mud, murky water, and silence in the deep.
A bright example is how Lenin traveled in a "sealed" railway car. Some of the historians say the German spy Ulyanov came home bringing German money. The others say the proletarian leader returned to orchestrate a revolution. However, neither can explain why Lenin freely entered Russia or why he didn't have to use any counterfeit documents. Right at the railway station, he called people to overthrow the existing government and just got away with that.
We need the simplest tool to study the history of our revolutions – the common sense. If a healthy, powerful, and very rich person suddenly died, the investigation process would be the same in any country. Competent agencies would consider all the versions, look for motives, vestiges, and proofs of the crime. No variants would be neglected only because "this can't be true." Detectives shall not act from emotions in their job, they have to deal with the facts. And when a whole empire has been destroyed, documents and deeds of people are the facts.
If we start to study the revolution period in our country, our main feeling will be astonishment. That incredibly many acts of states, politicians, governments, and parties within such a short time segment cause contradictory feelings. However, let's not see politicians and statesmen as fools and simpletons. They aren't any witless than we are. If their actions seem odd to us, then we just fail to see their real motives and objectives. If a variety of serious political events miraculously coincide in such a short period, it can't be a game of chance. Let's see who profited from it…
Let's conduct our own investigation. We'll stick to the facts and put away all the emotions and stereotypes. Just then the one to be truly blamed for the catastrophe unprecedented in the Russian history will come out of the shadow…
Convenient bowels of the conspiracy theory are regularly used to hide the truth about the reasons, orchestrators, and sponsors of the Russian Revolution. Indeed, how can the colossus of a revolution be planned in advance? How can all the kaleidoscope of occasions, human characters, and acts of nature be taken into account? What brain or association is capable of that?
This is what we hear from those who either strive to withhold the truth or are just unaware of how the global politics works, and therefore believe that revolutions are always spontaneous like fires in warehouses happen to be. They believe that neither misuse of funds nor revisions can cause fires, that competitors never set fires on their opponents, and enviers never commit acts of arson – they are sure that the only reasons for fires are short circuits and cigarette ends unextinguished without any fraudulent intent…
So, can a revolution be calculated and planned?
Definitely not! No one has ever planned a revolution as an accurate sequence of mathematically precise acts of different people and groups. However, it doesn't mean that there were no intents to shatter Russia from the inside and remove this strong geopolitical competitor.
Do you plan your life from one certificate to another? When I am 18, I will enter University A on Street B, and I will get A in Math and В in Physics. When I am 23, I will be an ordinary manager with 2 years' experience, and then I'll be appointed deputy director, and in 5 years I'll become a director. When I am 26, I'll get married to a blonde by the name of Irene, and we'll have two daughters. We'll have Karina this year, and Olga the next year. When I turn 29, I'll buy a country house…
No one plans their lives that way, that's ridiculous. Life has so many factors that simply can't be predicted. No one is capable of such scheduling, but does it mean that you DON'T MAKE ANY PLANS IN YOUR LIFE? Does it mean you don't construct your life in some way? This is as much nonsense. But this is exactly what our "denouncers' say – because a revolution is as unpredictable as nature, no one can do anything to explode opposing states.
Still, you plan your life – not in every detail, but in general, topically. I need to get a degree, I need to get married, now it's time to have kids. You choose the trends of your life and affect its course. Thus, your life is 50% governed by circumstances and 50% created by yourself.
Likewise, the orchestrators of the Russian Revolution never planned it end-to-end, but they always tried to direct the events according to their needs. They watched the circumstances developing, adjusted, changed and modified their plans, they made their mistakes, had their wins and sustained their defeats. A revolution is like life, and in
