Geroi,zhertvy i zlodei - Malyshev V.P.

The inevitability of the revolution was predicted by many, and the causes of these fateful events in Petrograd, which took place a hundred years ago, are still fiercely debated. Today, historians tend to call the February Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent coup of the Bolsheviks, who seized power in October of the same year, the Great Russian Revolution, a single cycle of dramatic events that changed the fate of not only Russia, but also the world. Fyodor Dostoyevsky in "The Diary of a Writer" noted: "No, not multimillion-dollar masses make history. And not material forces, and not interests that seem immutable, and not money, not a sword and not power, and at first not noticed thoughts sometimes completely invisible people." If a bald man sitting quietly in Switzerland in Switzerland with a red-haired beard and a ridiculous pot, as we see him in the photo of those years, by the name of Ulyanov was not promptly transferred by the German General Staff to Petrograd in a "plombed" car, and Russia's history would be very different.