Doomed Icarus. Red October in the family perspective

In this book, the famous philosopher Mikhail Ryklin tells the story of his family, for which, as well as for the whole people, the October Revolution was a turning point and largely determining event. The author of the author Nikolai Chaplin was the leader of Soviet youth in 1924-1928, when the coup in Russia was perceived as the first step towards the world revolution. After the collapse of these hope, Nicholas with the brothers and their comrades (Lazar Shatskin, Beso Lominadze, Alexander Kosarev), like millions of compatriots, became victims of great terror - the Stalinist repressions of 1937-1938. The fate of the author’s native grandfather Sergei Chaplin, the Soviet intelligence officer, arrested in the case of his older brother, who, along with the future famous artist George Zhzhenov, from the Leningrad crosses to the Kolyma mine and, ultimately shot, is also tragic. However, this book has another, an internal plot based on thoughts about the circumstances of a hundred years ago, about the incomprehensible manifestations of social and personal behavior of private people and Soviet society as a whole: the dramatic events of the beginning of the 20th century remained in the past, but whether this means that they mean that they mean Can"t repeat?