Facebook of the Russian Revolution

What if you look at the events of the Russian revolution from the inside, the eyes of the participants themselves, who do not yet know how it will end? What if you follow their actions day after day, read what they hope, what are they afraid of and what they plan - and how their fears and plans are changing? If you get rid of the standard view of the story-“from the top of the mountain”, from our, today"s point of view, when the result is already known and the willy-nilly is looking for logic in the actions of the heroes, it becomes clear that there are not many logic. The history is ruled by an error. Heroes are almost always mistaken, make decisions based on incorrect calculations, futile hopes, false fears ...
multimedia project “1917. Free history ”on the basis of which a book was created is an imitation of how social networks would look if
they existed in 1917. The project was implemented on the basis of archival materials that were broadcast in social media format. Within its framework, more than 1,500 accounts of people, newspapers and institutions of the beginning of the twentieth century were created.
The materials used materials from the Russian archives, the archives of the Guver Institute (Stanford), the German Foreign Ministry (Berlin), the Columbia University (New York), and the university Lidsa, University of Helsinki