The book by the famous Russian writer and scientist S. G. Kara-Murza shows the deep national foundations of the Great October Socialist Revolution, which, along with other reasons, predetermined its inevitable victory. It was the October Revolution that predetermined Russia’s choice of its own special path of development (“Soviet project”), which allowed it to achieve impressive results in all areas of socio-economic life in the shortest possible time. “At one time, Prishvin, who negatively perceived the October Revolution, was nevertheless forced was to admit that it meant a civilizational choice, that a revolution of such a scale is the resolution of a crisis incomparably deeper than political or social. Hardly experiencing the collapse of liberal illusions, he was forced to admit that the Soviet system established as a result of the revolution was “the union of the invisible city of the Orthodox with the visible city of comrades on the land.” But only in such a connection is Russia alive,” the author believes.