On the ways to the palace coup

Here is the look of an eyewitness for February 1917.
The very name of the book suggests that there was no spontaneous revolution.
February 1917 - as spontaneous indignation as the 2014 Maidan in Kyiv.
It was a conspiracy, which means there were conspirators.
traitors who are ready to arrest their sovereign, to break the oath, during the war to detain the Supreme Commander -in -Chief.
Not even years will pass, but months, and most conspirators will go to the grave.
This is a terrible lesson in February 1917.
We will not allow more betrayal and betrayal!
After all, the year 1991 was a continuation of February 1917 ...

Features: This is a historical study on the events that led to the renunciation of the throne of the last Russian emperor. The word "research" should not scare the reader enthusiastic by the Russian story: the book "on the ways to the palace coup" is written in a living, figurative language that retained the atmosphere of the beginning of the 20th century. The author gives excerpts from the diaries of contemporaries, quotes of police agents, fragments of newspaper publications - it seems that the voices of various representatives of Russian society are heard in this large choir. The cold academicism in this book simply has no place.

About the book: the view of an eyewitness for February 1917 is a fascinating story that there was no spontaneous revolution. There were conspiracies, which means and conspirators. The traitors who are ready to arrest their sovereign, to break the oath, during the war to detain the Supreme Commander -in -Chief. In order to reveal the reasons that led to the very possibility of the palace coup, Sergei Melgunov begins his narrative from the country"s entry into the First World War. Non -critical patriotism and chapic -absorbing sentiments in 2014 in Russian society changed a year later by searching for guilty in the defeats of Russian troops. The liberal public who was disappointed in its own patriotic moods demanded from the king and the government more and large and greater political concessions. And the supreme power went to these concessions, instead of spinning nuts and act based on the laws of wartime, based only from the interests of the country. The “ministerial Czech”, unsuccessful compromises led to the fact that public opinion decided: one cannot be with the king and with Russia at the same time ...

Book "on the ways to the palace coup" is printed according to the original Parisian publication of 1931. The Grandmaster Publishing House publishes a book in the unique series "Library of Nikolai Starikov" (rare and almost unknown to the Russian reader books about the history of our country) The circulation is being prepared for the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov house.

About the author: Sergey Melgunov (January 6, 1880 - May 26, 1956) - Russian historian and politician, participant in the anti -Bolshevik struggle after the October Revolution. He graduated from the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University. He established himself as an active publicist: from 1900 to 1916, more than 250 of his articles on various socio-political topics were published in various periodicals. Melgunov did not accept Bolshevik ideology, in 1922 he was sent by the Soviet government abroad along with a number of other socio-political and cultural figures. Since 1926 he lived in Paris, where he was engaged in journalism, historical research on the formation of the church, the Russian revolution and the civil war, as well as publishing