Farewell to the revolution

Were there a revolution in Russia? How is the "revolution different from the Troubles? What place in the history of Russia occupies troubles? These and other questions are just as pressing to understand the past in the book of a historian, professor A.Yu. Dvornichenko. A small but substantial essay is an exciting alloy of the historiography of Russian revolutions, these sources, and the presentation of actual material carefully studied. At the same time, the book is innovative. However, the author does not seek to create another historical and sociological scheme. For him, the history of his native country is not something abstract - history passes through each of us. That is why he elects himself "conductors in the era", real and close to him - G.V. Vernadsky and V.N. Chadrantsev. Together with them, he leads the reader through the crucible of revolutionary tragedies. The conclusions of the author are non -trivial: Russian historiography has broken "on a revolutionary theme, the revolution has almost disappeared from historical memory. Moreover, Russia did not know revolutions as such. By the XVII century. The state-consumer system was formed here, which lived to another turmoil, so that after it it was reborn again, having survived the "revolution from above". The amazing originality of Russian history deprives it of the revolutionary component. Under such circumstances, the author of the book has no choice but to touchingly say goodbye to the Russian revolution