The new book of the St. Petersburg writer and researcher N.M. Konyaev is devoted to the political events of 1918, the “shortest” for Russia the year. This year is remembered not only and not so much the transition to the Gregorian system of chronology. He remained in Russian history as a period of formation and strengthening of the Bolshevik dictatorship, as the time of turning the “red terror” into a purposeful state policy. Acceleration of the Constituent Assembly, the creation of a Cheka, the phased destruction of the Bolsheviks of other parties, including the left, the murder of the German ambassador Mirbach, the Levoyer rebellion, the murder of Volodarsky and Uritsky, the villainous destruction of the tsarist family, the assassination of Lenin – these are the main episodes of this bloody epic. All “oddities” and “inconsistencies” in the behavior of Lenin, Trotsky, Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov, other large and small “leaders” are explained by the anti-national and anti-people policy of the “Bolshevik-internationalists”, their desire to release the civil war and destroy the Russian states …
Author
Konyaev Nikolay Mikhailovich
Editor
Rudnev P.I.
Publisher
Veche, 2014
Series
Military secrets of the twentieth century
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