Grimaces of the Revolution

"The Grimes of the Revolution is the new book of the writer Gleb Aleksandrovich Anishchenko (the previous ones -" Orthodoxy. Literature Revolution "," Choice and Way "," Silence and Word "," White Tragedy "), The book includes five essays united by the theme of Russia and the theme Revolution".
The historical and cultural essay "Three revolutions and the counter -revolution" considers the cultural revolution of Peter the Great, the class - Lenin and the criminal - Yeltsin as three consistent stages of the struggle of revolutionary forces with Russia. In the last part of the essay, the author represents the entire political path of President Putin - from the first television interview to amendments to the Constitution - as a consistent elimination of the consequences of the previous revolutions and the creation of conditions for the natural, evolutionary development of the country.
In the essay of the February of the Great Fracture ", the February Revolution, on the one hand, is analyzed as a historical phenomenon. And on the other, the events of a hundred years ago are projected onto the modern life of Russia
In the historical study of "Lenin as a Tsareubian", the author, having collected all the material related to this issue, dismantling the arguments of the supporters of the "innocence" of Lenin, comes to the following conclusion: the facts say that the leader of the Bolsheviks for at least fifteen years he hatched the idea of ​​regicide, and then led its implementation
"Feeling of worldwide catastrophism" is a literary study. It focuses on the artistic side of Solzhenitsin"s work, in particular - on a genre search. The use of different genre forms and the creation of new ones became one of the most important prerequisites that Solzhenitsyn (in his whole work) managed to create a tragic epic of Russian folk life of the 20th century and become the only writer who managed to artistically comprehend and reveal the essence of the communist regime in Russia
The last essay - "Monuments and People" - is dedicated to two topics. The first is the Lenin plan of "monumental propaganda", the story of how the Bolsheviks crushed the former monuments and erected new ones. The second theme of the essay is the post -revolutionary fate of some descendants of Russian writers (Pushkin, Gogol, Boratynsky, Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy) and artists (Kramsky, Repin) These fate are distorted and broken-up are a mirror, which reflected the whole tragedy of Russian society in the communist era