On November 7, 2017, Russia celebrates a special anniversary - the 100th anniversary of the Great October Revolution, or, as they often say, the October Revolution. Historians, political scientists, and sociologists are still arguing about what it really was, what the driving forces were, who organized and carried out the coup and why. For for seventy years the party nomenclature and the “science” subordinate to it not only did not clarify this issue, but, on the contrary, distorted it, obscuring many aspects of the true affairs. The approaching anniversary is an excellent occasion to remind us all of the goals and objectives of that Great event, as well as to honor the memory of all its real participants, not those created by ideologists. And they are our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. This book is dedicated to them.