The Revolution of 1917 is often called the Great. She determined the fate of Russia and the world. And only now are we gaining the ability to calmly and soberly assess what happened to us then. In the new book by Vyacheslav Nikonov you will learn how, in eight months, on the ruins of the great Eurasian power at the height of the world war in October 1917, the state of the Soviets arose under the leadership of a tiny party Bolsheviks, who proposed an alternative to the entire previous history of mankind.