About the book: 2016 / This book - the first of many modern publications - returns Man to Russian history. From an impersonal description of “objective processes” and “driving forces”, it makes history living, personal and factual. The historical material in the book is supplemented by many eyewitness memories, biographical dossiers, fragments of the most important documents, photographs and other living evidence of our past. The history of Russia is the history of people, not processes and forces. Leading scientists from Russia and other countries of the world took part in the creation of this book, who set themselves a very specific task - to present the reader with a new, unbiased look at the life and paths of Russia in its most dramatic era existence.