Today, when it comes to the Russian Empire on the eve of 1917, the theme of “mediocre generals”, “rotten regime”, “limp king”, “financial dependence on the West”, etc., almost always pops up. The stream of cliche about the backward “royal and autocratic” Russia was not only from the Bolsheviks who sought to denigrate the hated regime, but also from representatives of the White Movement, as well as from “Western partners.” The information war was not invented today, and not even in the twentieth century. Only in the old days, the role of the Internet was played by newspapers and rumors. Myths about the “poor, backward tsarist Russia”, a crying class inequality full of Fiasco of the Russian army in the Crimean, Russian-Japanese and First World War, have so firmly entered our consciousness that it is difficult for us to believe that everything was different in reality. Russia was a step away from Victory in both the Russian-Japanese and World War I. But internal traitors with foreign support twice led our country to defeat. Read this book – and many mi …
Author
Zykin Dmitry
Editor
Trofimova M.
Publisher
Peter, 2014
Series
Nikolai Starikov recommends reading
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