Passions for Power: from Lenin to Putin

Our country is great, but there was no order in it. And this lack of order manifested throughout almost all Russian history in constant struggle for power. The book is devoted to the change of power in Russia in the XX century - from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. It would seem that the era of palace coups in Russia ended at the beginning of the XIX century, when the emperor Paul I was killed. However, if you look at further historical events, it turns out that the palace coups were carried out in century twentieth. There is such an expression - "Sweet plays the king". In our country, the retinue played against the king! Throughout the twentieth century, the coup, which brought to the change of power and change the political course of the country, ripe and was not carried out somewhere on the side, and in the very nearest environment of the head of state. It is the struggle between Lenin and Sverdlovy, and the coming to the power of Stalin followed by the defeat of the opposition in the face of Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. This and the mysterious death of Stalin, this is the well by Malenkov, who fell as a result of the intrigue of Nikita Khrushchev, and the recent shift from the head of the head of government. This is the replacement of the Kremlin elders" on the young, energetic leading obvious policy of Mikhail Gorbachev. This is a dramatic performance with the GCCP and the transfer of power to Yeltsin, and the confrontation of it with Gorbachev, which caused the collapse of the Great Power, and an unprecedented operation of the successor "operation in world practice. The twentieth century ended. Is the era of court coups in Russia ended? Or and in the XXI century, the fate of our country will define a narrow group of people close to power?