About the book: 2006 / The October Revolution became the greatest disaster in Russian history. In the fall of 1917, the thousand-year-old Russian state virtually ceased to exist. Soviet history began with a clean slate. How could this happen? Was this an accident - or the result of a sophisticated political game? An internal affair of Russia - or the result of external influence? Why was Grigory Rasputin killed? Why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power so easily? Who was behind them? Who started the Civil War in Russia? Why did Lenin and Trotsky scuttle the Russian fleet? Why was the royal family shot? Why, contrary to all forecasts, did the Reds and not the Whites win the Civil War? In his previous book “Who Killed the Russian Empire?” Nikolai Starikov gave an unexpected, paradoxical, shocking answer to the main question of Russian history. His new research, even more fascinating and sensational, will make you doubt the most established “truths”, the most unshakable historical myths.