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M. VELLER, A. BUROVSKII

Civil History of Mad War

History is a scroll of secrets retold by a fool on a broken phone. History is usually presented as a sequence of important events. At the same time, the logic and psychology of the internal process of these events is usually not taken into account - it remains outside the framework, is outside the interests of the historian. As a result, the historian often fails to distinguish the most important events from the ordinary ones. As a result, the reader receives the label "Horseradish in a pickle."

All this is not trifles, my dear Eisman! This is not even a trifle! - Papa Müller, the Gestapo, understood that the steel thread of motives that move human actions, sometimes attached to the most inconspicuous carnations!

History is written by the winners. And it turns into a report written down by the clerk under the dictation of the commander - for the judges-descendants and bosses: about our valor, the difficulties overcome and the vileness of enemies. The ends do not converge, but it flatters pride.

I will not talk about military intelligence analyst Vladimir Rezun, the damned traitor and famous writer Viktor Suvorov. He combined individual trifles into a mosaic, and the world gasped and historians howled from the resulting picture. Oh no: dig deeper:

The Greeks fought the Trojans, according to Homer and Schliemann. Everyone knows this. Yes? Yes? Yeah. And what? “But Paris kidnapped Elena the Beautiful, the wife of one of the Greek kings, Menelaus. And why? But because earlier the three main Greek goddesses called on the most beautiful young man to resolve their doubts. They chose Paris as the most beautiful young man. And Athena, Aphrodite and Hera gave Paris an apple: give it to the most beautiful of us!Paris gave an apple to Aphrodite, and as a bonus for the service he was gifted: the most beautiful of us will love him a beautiful woman Greece. It was Elena. So? The second well-known fact: all mediterranean coast Asia Minor, in the first place - the current Anatolian coast of Turkey - it was the birthplace of the Greeks. And Ephesus, and Miletus, and many less famous cities stood there in those days. In general, the Greeks migrated from east to west, and the Aegean Sea was inhabited by them from both coasts and throughout all the islands. Thales lived in Miletus. Herostratus lived in Ephesus. And Paris lived in Troy!!! And there was the same Greek as Menelaus and other Greeks!!! And all the inhabitants of Troy were also Greeks!!! And what - the Greek goddesses called on the barbarian to judge them ?! Or was Troy a barbarian enclave on Greek territory? Or some of the Greek gods did not patronize the Trojans?! For ease of distinction, Homer calls teams from a bunch of islands and storming places “Greeks”, but “Trojans” are the same Greeks as all neighboring Spartans, Ithaca, Thebans, etc. It’s like “Novgorodians” and all the troops of Ivan the Terrible “Russians” . Look, the "Trojans" and "Greeks" pray to the same gods and lead the same way of life, speaking the same language! And this absolutely self-evident truth is practically not taken into account by anyone. Homer said "Greeks and Trojans" - that's it, there's nothing to think about.

A person who cannot think, see and understand is not a historian. And so, an involuntary misinformer. Mindless enumerator of facts in arbitrary selections. History is meaningless to list. History must be understood.

And this is all the more difficult because over time political reasons lies are replaced by psychosocial ones. A person subconsciously needs to feel himself a part of a great whole: a mighty people, great science, ingenious football team. Just as one who looks into the mirror makes his face more significant and beautiful in order to be better, so he who looks into the mirror of history “makes himself good face"! Oh no, little things: we’ll turn a little here, we don’t like this mole - we’ll cover it up, we’ll expose our chin - but this is our real chin!

And then the iron logic and crazy accidents of history disappear - and a meaningless archipelago remains on the surface. And the reader of such a story wonders: were all these figures fools? Why are they talking nonsense? Have you not seen what is visible and clear to me? They are not politicians and commanders, but goats! No, buddy... They just hid the motives and connections of their actions from you.

I. It would be nice for anyone who intends to take up history to make a tattoo on their arm - from the inside, neatly so, as a keepsake for themselves - a tattoo:

6. How much.

7. Why.

9. As a result.

11. With what end goal.

Without answers to these eleven questions, history does not exist. For the silence of a part of the truth is a lie. And ignorance of the system of causes is stupidity. Don't let yourself be deceived, and don't let yourself be fooled.

1. Never in world history has there been an event equal to the Russian Civil War in scale, density, diversity and swiftness of what happened. For four years, dozens of states emerged, merged, separated and collapsed on one sixth of the earth's land. Dozens of peoples gained independence, fought for it with near and distant neighbors - and lost again. Dozens of political parties organized, formed alliances, banned each other and disappeared forever. Yesterday's scum of society ascended in tens of thousands to the ruling class, and yesterday's educated and hard-working people turned into state slavery and were deprived of all rights. Millions fled, millions were destroyed, cruelty assumed an unimaginable character, execution was qualified as an "administrative measure." The gigantic empire suddenly collapsed into nothingness without any influence from external enemies and was immediately restored to its former size, but already as a social experiment that was fantastic in its plans and hopes.

As long as the Russians live on earth, they will again and again return to comprehending their bloody and finest hour - their Great Civil War, finding in it all new reasons for pride in their valor and sorrow for innocent blood.

Empires pass and peoples disappear, but the roots of greatness stretch from the past and nourish with juices, allowing descendants to hold their heads high. History is immortality.

2. The Civil War was conceived and first planned in 1914. The year was drawing to a close, and the great war in Europe dragged on. (Soon it will be called the Great, and after the end it will be called the World War more often, and with the unfolding of World War II it will simultaneously become World War I.) It was then that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov began to promote the thesis. Forty-four-year-old Lenin was wiry, energetic, and uncompromisingly asserted his leadership in the party company. The company drank beer in Switzerland, admiring the wonderful scenery, and the leader liked to pass a mug of light. And this thesis was like this, and a little later Lenin framed it in an article for the social democratic press: "Let's turn the imperialist war into a civil one!" The proletarian must turn away his bayonet from the proletarians of other countries in military uniform - and turn this bayonet against his own bourgeoisie! The people were given rifles and organized into the army. ABOUT! This army would be - yes, for socialist purposes!

This book for the first time sets out the history of the Civil War as a terrible and amazing fairy tale that happened in reality. Fantastic destinies, extraordinary adventures, noble dreams and seas of blood. Easy colloquial language, irony and honesty on the verge of cynicism make the book an indispensable reading for anyone who has heard the word "Russia".

A short course in the civil history of mad war

History is a scroll of secrets retold by a fool on a broken phone. History is usually presented as a sequence of important events. At the same time, the logic and psychology of the internal process of these events is usually not taken into account - it remains outside the framework, is outside the interests of the historian. As a result, the historian often fails to distinguish the most important events from the ordinary ones. As a result, the reader receives the label "Horseradish in a pickle."

All this is not trifles, my dear Eisman! This is not even a trifle! - Papa Müller, the Gestapo, understood that the steel thread of motives driving human actions is sometimes attached to the most inconspicuous carnations!

History is written by the winners. And it turns into a report written down by the clerk under the dictation of the commander - for the judges-descendants and bosses: about our valor, the difficulties overcome and the vileness of enemies. The ends do not converge, but it flatters pride.

I will not talk about military intelligence analyst Vladimir Rezun, the damned traitor and famous writer Viktor Suvorov. He combined individual trifles into a mosaic, and the world gasped and historians howled from the resulting picture. Oh no: dig deeper:

The Greeks fought the Trojans, according to Homer and Schliemann. Everyone knows this. Yes? Yes? Yeah. And what? And Paris kidnapped Elena the Beautiful, the wife of one of the Greek kings, Menelaus. And why? But because earlier the three main Greek goddesses called on the most beautiful young man to resolve their doubts. They chose Paris as the most beautiful young man. And Athena, Aphrodite and Hera gave Paris an apple: give it to the most beautiful of us! Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite, and as a bonus for the service, he was gifted: the most beautiful woman in Greece will love him. It was Elena. So? The second well-known fact: the entire Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor, in the first place - the current Anatolian coast of Turkey - was the homeland of the Greeks. And Ephesus, and Miletus, and many less famous cities stood there in those days. In general, the Greeks migrated from east to west, and the Aegean Sea was inhabited by them from both coasts and throughout all the islands. Thales lived in Miletus. Herostratus lived in Ephesus. And Paris lived in Troy!!! And there was the same Greek as Menelaus and other Greeks!!! And all the inhabitants of Troy were also Greeks!!! And what - the Greek goddesses called on the barbarian to judge them ?! Or was Troy a barbarian enclave on Greek territory? Or some of the Greek gods did not patronize the Trojans?! For ease of distinction, Homer calls teams from a bunch of islands and storming places “Greeks”, but “Trojans” are the same Greeks as all neighboring Spartans, Ithaca, Thebans, etc. It’s like “Novgorodians” and all the troops of Ivan the Terrible “Russians” . Look, the "Trojans" and "Greeks" pray to the same gods and lead the same way of life, speaking the same language! And this absolutely self-evident truth is practically not taken into account by anyone. Homer said "Greeks and Trojans" - that's it, there's nothing to think about.

Part I

BURNING RUSSIA

Chapter 1. Who wanted what?

Provisional Committee State Duma formed mainly liberals and conservative liberals: the Octobrists and the Cadets. Who are they?

After the publication of the Tsar's Manifesto on October 17, 1905, some of the right-wing activists of the zemstvo movement decided that Russia already had a constitution. The "Union of October 17" united that part of the bourgeoisie and specialists who were able to find a worthy place for themselves in the Russian Empire.

The Octobrists were professors L. N. Benois and F. N. Plevako, entrepreneurs E. L. Nobel, brothers V. P. and P. P. Ryabushinsky, court jeweler C. G. Faberge, public figures Count P. A. Heyden and Prince N. S. Volkonsky.

Speaking in favor of limiting the monarchy, the Octobrists categorically protested against the introduction of a parliamentary system in Russia. Let there be some "representation of the people" - but so that the power of the monarch is preserved, so that not a single law can be adopted without the sanction of the king.

Chapter 2

Having lost the state, the Russians instantly dispersed into estates, small groups, places of residence, nationalities, classes and parties. Derevensky did not want to understand a city man, a “proletarian” an intellectual, a military man a civilian, a Siberian a Muscovite, a Latvian a Tatar.

Diagnosis: Russian society turned out to be much more fragmented, consisting of many cells, than it was thought before the Cataclysm.

Numerous parties and parties of the beautiful Russian intelligentsia were constantly chattering and chattering soundlessly, as if enjoying the sounds of their own voices. This irresponsible public wanted either to bring their utopias to life, or just to chat - but in any case, they rocked an already dangerously listing boat.

As a result, every organ of power was torn apart by party and group squabbles between the Cadets, Right and Left SRs, Trudoviks, Mensheviks, local nationalists and anarchists.

Chapter 3

Many slogans that are considered Bolshevik were in fact intercepted by the Bolsheviks from the Socialist-Revolutionaries, Anarchists, Mensheviks, even the Cadets.

The slogan "Land to the peasants" is a Social Revolutionary.

"Peace to the peoples" is the slogan of the anarchists. The Bolsheviks intercepted it and propagated more than the anarchists themselves.

"All power to the Soviets" - the slogan originally put forward by the St. Petersburg Mensheviks.

Chapter 4

The Bolsheviks made their first attempts to seize power on June 9, 1917. They urged " populace to go on a demonstration with the slogan "All power to the Soviets!". The Bolsheviks planned to go out on June 10 with a large demonstration to the Mariinsky Palace - the Provisional Government met there. The ministers were supposed to be called out of the building to "communicate with the people", and special groups of people were supposed to yell and whistle, expressing "the wrath of the people" and warming up the crowd.

With a favorable development of events, it was supposed to immediately arrest the Provisional Government. Of course, “The capital should have responded immediately to this. And depending on this reaction, the Bolshevik Central Committee ... had to declare itself in power.

What if there is resistance? The provisional government has been arrested, and there are demonstrations demanding "let go!". What if military units loyal to the government come out in defense of the government with weapons in their hands? Such resistance was supposed to be "suppressed by the force of the Bolshevik regiments and guns."

This is the Civil War...

Chapter 5. Constituent Assembly

The Winter Palace has been taken. The Provisional Government no longer exists, its members have been arrested. The Bolsheviks won in Moscow.

There is a wonderful national slogan for reconciliation: the Constituent Assembly. Since 1903, the idea of ​​a Constituent Assembly has been included in the program documents of the Cadets, the Socialist-Revolutionaries, and the Social Democrats. Almost everyone agrees with her. It can really unite the divided Russians.

But the Bolsheviks did not want the Constituent Assembly, and it is well understandable why. In the elections held on November 12, 1917, the Bolsheviks received 22.9% of the vote. Despite the fact that the Socialist-Revolutionaries received 40.6%, the Mensheviks - 2.8%, other socialist parties on the national outskirts - 15%. National non-socialist parties - 8%, Cadets - 4.6%, confessions, cooperatives, regional Cossacks, right-wing parties - 6.1%.

In Moscow and Petrograd, the Bolsheviks received up to 30% of the votes, and the Cadets came in second place. In all national regions, local national parties were in the lead.

M. VELLER, A. BUROVSKII "CIVIL HISTORY OF THE MADNESS WAR" - M.: AST Publishing House, 2007. 640 p. Circulation 20,000 copies.

The book did well, and that's the main thing.
It has many shortcomings. It was written for one reason - I really wanted to read such a book. But she didn't exist.
A lot of work has been done, the list of used literature occupies fifteen pages. The authors coped with their task so successfully that the mosaic episodes of the bloody confrontation line up in a vivid adventure novel with absolutely fantastic fates of the main characters. The most amazing thing is that extraordinary events really happened.
The unconditional success of the co-authors includes expressive language and catchy presentation historical facts. The absolute cynicism and treacherous meanness of the Bolshevik leaders are vividly illustrated by facts.
Everything is subordinate main goal. This is the genius of a major politician.

In my opinion, this study would have sounded even louder if the authors had fairly assessed the results October revolution in Russia for the whole world. If Russia itself has lost a huge part of the population (the best part - the elite of the people), lost territories, lost the core, the backbone of the national Russian idea, then the rest of the world should be grateful to the Russians and Russia for the fact that, with their crazy experiment, the proletarians forced the capitalists to reckon with them.

It was the consequences of the Russian revolution that gave a powerful impetus to the trade union movement, the destruction of colonial regimes, social guarantees for workers, and a more just order of life in the rest of the world. Simply, the capitalists began to look at their workers with apprehension, stopped deceiving them so brazenly, and robbed them a little less.

The reader will learn many interesting facts.

For example: Trotsky personally wrote the text of the oath: "I, the son of the working people ...", which is taken in almost unchanged form by young people in the Russian Army today!

What exactly is Lenin's ultimatum to Ukraine about renouncing independence and recognizing the Council of People's Commissars, plus the subsequent punishers - pushed Ukraine during the Brest capitulation into the arms of the Germans! (A terrible Soviet historical secret!)

Trotsky, a brilliant organizer, introduced a system of hostages, forcing officers to fight in the Red Army to save their families. And the commissars looked after the officers (responsible for them with their heads). The family of such an officer is given rations (and in the country - hunger). And where should the officer go? By the end of the Civil War in R.K.K.A. there were 75,000 former officers. Of the 130,000 of all available in the Russian Army in the spring of 1917.
And in the White Army - 30,000. This is the ratio.

The Bolsheviks intercepted the slogans of other parties.
The slogan "Land to the peasants" is a Social Revolutionary. "Peace to the peoples" - anarchists. "All power to the Soviets" is the slogan of the Mensheviks. The Cadets defended the right of nations to self-determination. But the Bolsheviks passed them off as their own, just to seize power!
In April 1917 there were only 40,000 of them. In September - already 500 thousand.

Throughout the Civil War, in 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, there was enough bread in Russia! There has NEVER been a famine in ANY of the territories of the white states of Russia. There was no famine in the territory of gangs, peasant armies, foreign military units. ANYWHERE.
During the Civil War, famine was ONLY in the territory controlled by the Bolsheviks. It appeared wherever they appeared and disappeared wherever they left. If the Bolsheviks wanted this, they would have eliminated the famine. It was necessary to artificially split the Russian countryside into two opposing classes, the poor and the rich.
The Bolsheviks tried to capitalize on the famine in 1921. Accepting help from foreigners, the RSFSR simultaneously sold grain for export.
Upon learning of this, the Americans stopped helping.

Military mercenaries were recruited - Latvian riflemen.
They were paid well - 10, then 15 rubles a day. A "Corpus of Latvian Riflemen" was formed, numbering 30 thousand people. Then the number of the corps increased - the service turned out to be nursing. In 1919, 55% of the employees of the central apparatus of the Cheka were Latvians. You can remember the legendary deputy chairman of the Cheka M. Latsis, and there were also Peters, and Petrovs, and Berzin, and Shulburg ... But the last Latvian German. There were also Latvians in the Cheka - Shtalberg, Vickers and others.

Entire groups of the population were exterminated.
In 1919, in Moscow, it was considered that the Boy Scouts were a counter-revolutionary organization. And several hundred Boy Scouts, from 12 to 16 years old, were shot. They were not tortured - it was so obvious that none of them had done or planned anything against the authorities. They were just superfluous in the new world.

Rallies and strikes take place in France, Italy, Belgium, Britain
In Bulgaria, the Valdai uprising of 1918 was the beginning of a virtual dual power.
In Austria, the city councils started a war with the village councils - they carried out a surplus appraisal. Only in 1920 the Soviets were dispersed.
In Czechoslovakia and Poland, Soviets were active in 1920.
Rebellion after revolt went on in Ireland.
For a short time, Soviet power was established in Hungary.
In Bavaria, in April 1919, the Soviet Republic was organized. The leadership of the Bavarian Republic was dominated by: a native of Poland Axelrod, an anarchist ideologist Landauer, Ernst Toller.
The head of the BSR, Eugen Levine, a Russian Jew by origin, born in St. Petersburg, was shot by a court-martial. Probably, it was not in vain that many leaders of the White movement in Russia said that the Civil War was a war between Russians and Jews ...

The main trouble of this time was that the urban intelligentsia in Russia did not feel dear relatives in the peasants; the city militias acted like they were in an occupied wild country. The total number of beaten, flogged, robbed to the skin is estimated at many tens of thousands. Sometimes villages were burned, there were many cases when women were also flogged with ramrods.

Those peasants who rebelled against the Soviet regime were poisoned with suffocating poison gases. Near the village of Pakhotny Ugol in the Tambov province alone (during the suppression of the "Antonovshchina" by Tukhachevsky's troops), 7,000 peasants were killed by gases, including women and children hiding in the forest. Entire villages were destroyed without exception. The number of exterminated peasants in the Tambov province is about 150 thousand people. After that, the Tambov province was abolished and re-created as the Tambov region in 1937: three times smaller than the previous one.

The property of the North-Western Army remained on the territory of Estonia: food depots, thousands of wagons loaded with military equipment and 26 locomotives. The army itself could go anywhere without straining the Estonians at all. But the Estonians took over everything. They did not give away a single locomotive or a set of uniforms. All Yudenich's telegrams to the allies were detained by the Estonians. Then the Estonians arrested Yudenich and wanted to extradite him to the Soviet Republic. When the car with Yudenich and his family was already rolling towards the Soviet border, fellow soldiers intervened.

Why did whites lose this war?
There is only one answer: because White did not have a single powerful idea. They had nothing to say to 90% of the Russian population. Whites had no idea for EVERYONE. But the whites had an idea for themselves. It was the idea of ​​preserving and continuing Russia. The only question is, which Russia? Russia Russian Europeans. Russia's educated stratum, which in 1917 numbered at most 4-5 million people. Almost the same number of Russian natives were ready to enter this layer, to accept its ideas as their own. For these 7-8 million out of 140, it was obvious what exactly should be preserved and why.
They wanted to preserve the cozy Russia of the intelligentsia rising from the pages of Bulgakov and Pasternak. This is a very pretty Russia, but 90% of the then population of the former Russian Empire have nothing to do with her.
They will not fight and die for the idea of ​​preserving it.
There are simply not enough whites, a few tens of thousands of combat-ready men throughout colossal Russia. In addition, they constantly squabbled among themselves.

The Civil War revealed the most difficult problem in Russia: the socio-cultural gap between the people and the intelligentsia, which arose after the reforms of Peter the Great and for two centuries was the greatest social evil in Russian life. The people looked at the intelligentsia almost as if they were foreigners, or, in any case, as if they were "bosses." This gap was not only domestic and psychological, but also legal.

So why did the Reds win?
They had an idea!
Grandiose! Perhaps this is the most grandiose idea in the history of mankind. They had something to torture, torment, force themselves to make any effort and extra effort. After all, they built new world, a new Universe where everything will be different than today.
It made sense for them to force others to fight for this idea of ​​a just Heaven on Earth.
The idea directly allowed to lie, invent, manipulate. I resolved it on my own - such an idea. In the name of SUCH an idea, it was possible to lie from three boxes, and make an alliance with the devil himself.

Leon Trotsky said frankly: "In order to win the Civil War, we robbed Russia."
They were not afraid to destroy Russia, because their homeland is the whole world!
But as a result, under the Bolsheviks, Russia reached the peak of its power as a state.

M. VELLER, A. BUROVSKII

Civil History of Mad War

History is a scroll of secrets retold by a fool on a broken phone. History is usually presented as a sequence of important events. At the same time, the logic and psychology of the internal process of these events is usually not taken into account - it remains outside the framework, is outside the interests of the historian. As a result, the historian often fails to distinguish the most important events from the ordinary ones. As a result, the reader receives the label "Horseradish in a pickle."

All this is not trifles, my dear Eisman! This is not even a trifle! - Papa Müller, the Gestapo, understood that the steel thread of motives driving human actions is sometimes attached to the most inconspicuous carnations!

History is written by the winners. And it turns into a report written down by the clerk under the dictation of the commander - for the judges-descendants and bosses: about our valor, the difficulties overcome and the vileness of enemies. The ends do not converge, but it flatters pride.

I will not talk about military intelligence analyst Vladimir Rezun, the damned traitor and famous writer Viktor Suvorov. He combined individual trifles into a mosaic, and the world gasped and historians howled from the resulting picture. Oh no: dig deeper:

The Greeks fought the Trojans, according to Homer and Schliemann. Everyone knows this. Yes? Yes? Yeah. And what? “But Paris kidnapped Elena the Beautiful, the wife of one of the Greek kings, Menelaus. And why? But because earlier the three main Greek goddesses called on the most beautiful young man to resolve their doubts. They chose Paris as the most beautiful young man. And Athena, Aphrodite and Hera gave Paris an apple: hand it to the most beautiful of us! Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite, and as a bonus for the service he was gifted: the most beautiful woman in Greece will fall in love with him. It was Helena. So? The second well-known fact: the entire Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor, first of all - the current Anatolian coast of Turkey - it was the birthplace of the Greeks. And Ephesus, and Miletus, and many less famous cities stood there in those days. In general, the Greeks migrated from east to west, and the Aegean Sea was settled by them from both shores and all over the islands Thales lived in Miletus. Herostratus lived in Ephesus. And Paris lived in Troy!!! And he was the same Greek as Menelaus and other Greeks!!! And all the inhabitants of Troy were Greeks too!!! And what - the Greek goddesses to themselves the barbarian was called to judge them?! Or was Troy a barbarian enclave on Greek territory? Or some of the Greek gods did not patronize the Trojans?! For ease of distinction, Homer calls teams from a bunch of islands and storming places “Greeks”, but “Trojans” are the same Greeks as all neighboring Spartans, Ithaca, Thebans, etc. It’s like “Novgorodians” and all the troops of Ivan the Terrible “Russians” . Look, the "Trojans" and "Greeks" pray to the same gods and lead the same way of life, speaking the same language! And this absolutely self-evident truth is practically not taken into account by anyone. Homer said "Greeks and Trojans" - that's it, there's nothing to think about.

A person who cannot think, see and understand is not a historian. And so, an involuntary misinformer. Mindless enumerator of facts in arbitrary selections. History is meaningless to list. History must be understood.

And this is all the more difficult because, over time, the political reasons for lying are replaced by psychosocial ones. A person subconsciously needs to feel like a part of a great whole: a mighty people, great science, a brilliant football team. Just as one who looks into the mirror makes his face more significant and beautiful in order to be better, so he who looks into the mirror of history “makes himself a good face”! Oh no, little things: we’ll turn a little here, we don’t like this mole - we’ll cover it up, we’ll expose our chin - but this is our real chin!

And then the iron logic and crazy accidents of history disappear - and a meaningless archipelago remains on the surface. And the reader of such a story wonders: were all these figures fools? Why are they talking nonsense? Have you not seen what is visible and clear to me? They are not politicians and commanders, but goats! No, buddy... They just hid the motives and connections of their actions from you.

I. It would be nice for anyone who intends to take up history to make a tattoo on their arm - from the inside, neatly so, as a keepsake for themselves - a tattoo:

6. How much.

7. Why.

9. As a result.

11. With what end goal.

Without answers to these eleven questions, history does not exist. For the silence of a part of the truth is a lie. And ignorance of the system of causes is stupidity. Don't let yourself be deceived, and don't let yourself be fooled.

1. Never in world history has there been an event equal to the Russian Civil War in scale, density, diversity and swiftness of what happened. For four years, dozens of states emerged, merged, separated and collapsed on one sixth of the earth's land. Dozens of peoples gained independence, fought for it with near and distant neighbors - and lost again. Dozens of political parties organized, formed alliances, banned each other and disappeared forever. Yesterday's scum of society ascended in tens of thousands to the ruling class, and yesterday's educated and hard-working people turned into state slavery and were deprived of all rights. Millions fled, millions were destroyed, cruelty assumed an unimaginable character, execution was qualified as an "administrative measure." The gigantic empire suddenly collapsed into nothingness without any influence from external enemies and was immediately restored to its former size, but already as a social experiment that was fantastic in its plans and hopes.

As long as the Russians live on earth, they will again and again return to comprehending their bloody and finest hour - their Great Civil War, finding in it all new reasons for pride in their valor and sorrow for innocent blood.

Empires pass and peoples disappear, but the roots of greatness stretch from the past and nourish with juices, allowing descendants to hold their heads high. History is immortality.

2. The Civil War was conceived and first planned in 1914. The year was drawing to a close, and the great war in Europe dragged on. (Soon it will be called the Great, and after the end it will be called the World War more often, and with the unfolding of World War II it will simultaneously become World War I.) It was then that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov began to promote the thesis. Forty-four-year-old Lenin was wiry, energetic, and uncompromisingly asserted his leadership in the party company. The company drank beer in Switzerland, admiring the wonderful scenery, and the leader liked to pass a mug of light. And this thesis was like this, and a little later Lenin framed it in an article for the social democratic press: "Let's turn the imperialist war into a civil one!" The proletarian must turn away his bayonet from the proletarians of other countries in military uniform - and turn this bayonet against his own bourgeoisie! The people were given rifles and organized into the army. ABOUT! This army would be - yes, for socialist purposes!

Life in Switzerland was, of course, safe, but boring. And Lenin is already years old to hell, but not a stake or a yard, and in general nothing has been done. Revolutionaries are always dreamers, especially in the combination of security and idleness. And the leader dreamed of how the armed people would follow the course indicated by the Bolsheviks - to destroy the bourgeoisie, owners, exploiters, to socialize everything and create socialism.

And so - for all the warring armies! Against the bourgeoisie of all European countries! It's on fire!

This is a brilliant moment! Capitalism organizes the proletariat, gathers it together, prepares it for independent management of all production and further the state. And imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism, gathers this proletariat into gigantic armies, disciplines and arms its gravedigger!

Comrades. As Marx rightly pointed out, and Engels argued, and we all understand, socialism must first win in the most industrialized countries, where the most numerous and class-conscious proletariat. But the general war provides another possibility. A military coup becomes at the same time a proletarian, revolutionary coup. The army today is the proletariat! The main thing is to take power! And then - flare up! Let's start with our country.

And how nice it would be to start directly from Switzerland, comrades!...

coup setting, civil war, the world revolution - settled in the brains of these revolutionaries, dreamers, lumpen, idlers, fanatics, losers, parasites, ambitious people, guardians of the people and justice.

Of course, the ruling class will never give up its positions without a struggle, comrades. The capitalist will never give up his property without fierce resistance. The suppression of resistance is inevitable.

Abstract

This book for the first time sets out the history of the Civil War as a terrible and amazing fairy tale that happened in reality. Fantastic destinies, extraordinary adventures, noble dreams and seas of blood. Easy colloquial language, irony and honesty on the verge of cynicism make the book an indispensable reading for anyone who has heard the word "Russia".

Mikhail Veller, Andrey Burovsky

A short course in the civil history of mad war

Chapter 1. Who wanted what?

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5. Constituent Assembly

Chapter 6. Creation of the Cheka

Chapter 1

Chapter 2. The collapse of Russia

Chapter 1. Bolshevik coup in the Black Sea Fleet

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 1. State of a new type

Chapter 2

Chapter 3. The most important part of the system

Chapter 4

Chapter 5. Building the economic base

Chapter 6

Chapter 1. Long live the inequality of nations!

Chapter 2. Political inequality

Chapter 3. "Cultural Revolution"

Chapter 4

Chapter 1. In the West and Northwest

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4. "Red Verdun"

Chapter 5

Chapter 6 The Rose Governments of 1918

Chapter 7

Chapter 8. Izhevsk-Votkinsk uprising

Chapter 9. Yaroslavl uprising

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4. In the state of Denikin

Chapter 5

Chapter 6. State of Admiral Kolchak

Chapter 7. East-Western Front

Chapter 8. In the states of Central Asia

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 1. The End of Denikin's State

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2. The Soviet Republic after the defeat of Wrangel

Chapter 3. In the state of von Ungern

Chapter 4. "Antonovshchina"

Chapter 5. Fire over Siberia

Chapter 1. Why did the Bolsheviks win?

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

APPS

WHO WAS WHO

Greens, people's leaders, nationalists

CHRONICLE OF THE CIVIL WAR

FORMATION OF THE RED ARMY

FURTHER

LITERATURE

Mikhail Veller, Andrey Burovsky

Civil History of Mad War

A short course in the civil history of mad war

History is a scroll of secrets retold by a fool on a broken phone. History is usually presented as a sequence of important events. At the same time, the logic and psychology of the internal process of these events is usually not taken into account - it remains outside the framework, is outside the interests of the historian. As a result, the historian often fails to distinguish the most important events from the ordinary ones. As a result, the reader receives the label "Horseradish in a pickle."

All this is not trifles, my dear Eisman! This is not even a trifle! - Papa Müller, the Gestapo, understood that the steel thread of motives driving human actions is sometimes attached to the most inconspicuous carnations!

History is written by the winners. And it turns into a report written down by the clerk under the dictation of the commander - for the judges-descendants and bosses: about our valor, the difficulties overcome and the vileness of enemies. The ends do not converge, but it flatters pride.

I will not talk about military intelligence analyst Vladimir Rezun, the damned traitor and famous writer Viktor Suvorov. He combined individual trifles into a mosaic, and the world gasped and historians howled from the resulting picture. Oh no: dig deeper:

The Greeks fought the Trojans, according to Homer and Schliemann. Everyone knows this. Yes? Yes? Yeah. And what? And Paris kidnapped Elena the Beautiful, the wife of one of the Greek kings, Menelaus. And why? But because earlier the three main Greek goddesses called on the most beautiful young man to resolve their doubts. They chose Paris as the most beautiful young man. And Athena, Aphrodite and Hera gave Paris an apple: give it to the most beautiful of us! Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite, and as a bonus for the service, he was gifted: the most beautiful woman in Greece will love him. It was Elena. So? The second well-known fact: the entire Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor, in the first place - the current Anatolian coast of Turkey - was the homeland of the Greeks. And Ephesus, and Miletus, and many less famous cities stood there in those days. In general, the Greeks migrated from east to west, and the Aegean Sea was inhabited by them from both coasts and throughout all the islands. Thales lived in Miletus. Herostratus lived in Ephesus. And Paris lived in Troy!!! And there was the same Greek as Menelaus and other Greeks!!! And all the inhabitants of Troy were also Greeks!!! And what - the Greek goddesses called on the barbarian to judge them ?! Or was Troy a barbarian enclave on Greek territory? Or some of the Greek gods did not patronize the Trojans?! For ease of distinction, Homer calls teams from a bunch of islands and storming places “Greeks”, but “Trojans” are the same Greeks as all neighboring Spartans, Ithaca, Thebans, etc. It’s like “Novgorodians” and all the troops of Ivan the Terrible “Russians” . Look, the "Trojans" and "Greeks" pray to the same gods and lead the same way of life, speaking the same language! And this absolutely self-evident truth is practically not taken into account by anyone. Homer said "Greeks and Trojans" - that's it, there's nothing to think about.

A person who cannot think, see and understand is not a historian. And so, an involuntary misinformer. Mindless enumerator of facts in arbitrary selections. History is meaningless to list. History must be understood.

And this is all the more difficult because, over time, the political reasons for lying are replaced by psychosocial ones. A person subconsciously needs to feel like a part of a great whole: a mighty people, great science, a brilliant football team. Just as one who looks into the mirror makes his face more significant and beautiful in order to be better, so he who looks into the mirror of history “makes himself a good face”! Oh no, little things: we’ll turn a little here, we don’t like this mole - we’ll cover it up, we’ll expose our chin - but this is our real chin!

And then the iron logic and crazy accidents of history disappear - and a meaningless archipelago remains on the surface. And the reader of such a story wonders: were all these figures fools? Why are they talking nonsense? Have you not seen what is visible and clear to me? They are not politicians and commanders, but goats! No, buddy... They just hid the motives and connections of their actions from you.

I. It would be nice for anyone who intends to take up history to make a tattoo on their arm - from the inside, neatly so, as a keepsake for themselves - a tattoo:

6. How much.

7. Why.

9. As a result.

11. With what end goal.

Without answers to these eleven questions, history does not exist. For the silence of a part of the truth is a lie. And ignorance of the system of causes is stupidity. Don't let yourself be deceived, and don't let yourself be fooled.

1. Never in world history has there been an event equal to the Russian Civil War in scale, density, diversity and swiftness of what happened. For four years, dozens of states emerged, merged, separated and collapsed on one sixth of the earth's land. Dozens of peoples gained independence, fought for it with near and distant neighbors - and lost again. Dozens of political parties organized, formed alliances, banned each other and disappeared forever. Yesterday's scum of society ascended in tens of thousands to the ruling class, and yesterday's educated and hard-working people turned into state slavery and were deprived of all rights. Millions fled, millions were destroyed, cruelty assumed an unimaginable character, execution was qualified as an "administrative measure." The gigantic empire suddenly collapsed into nothingness without any influence from external enemies and was immediately restored to its former size, but already as a social experiment that was fantastic in its plans and hopes.

As long as the Russians live on earth, they will again and again return to comprehending their bloody and finest hour - their Great Civil War, finding in it all new reasons for pride in their valor and sorrow for innocent blood.

Empires pass and peoples disappear, but the roots of greatness stretch from the past and nourish with juices, allowing descendants to hold their heads high. History is immortality.

2. The Civil War was conceived and first planned in 1914. The year was drawing to a close, and the great war in Europe dragged on. (Soon it will be called the Great, and after the end it will be called the World War more often, and with the unfolding of World War II it will simultaneously become World War I.) It was then that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov began to promote the thesis. Forty-four-year-old Lenin was wiry, energetic, and uncompromisingly asserted his leadership in the party company. The company drank beer in Switzerland, admiring the wonderful scenery, and the leader liked to pass a mug of light. And this thesis was like this, and a little later Lenin framed it in an article for the social democratic press: "Let's turn the imperialist war into a civil one!" The proletarian must turn away his bayonet from the proletarians of other countries in military uniform - and turn this bayonet against his own bourgeoisie! The people were given rifles and organized into the army. ABOUT! This army would be - yes, for socialist purposes!

Life in Switzerland was, of course, safe, but boring. And Lenin is already years old to hell, but not a stake or a yard, and in general nothing has been done. Revolutionaries are always dreamers, especially in the combination of security and idleness. And the leader dreamed of how the armed people would follow the course indicated by the Bolsheviks - to destroy the bourgeoisie, owners, exploiters, to socialize everything and create socialism.

And so - for all the warring armies! Against the bourgeoisie of all European countries! It's on fire!

This is a brilliant moment! Capitalism organizes the proletariat, gathers it together, prepares it for independent management of all production and further the state. And imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism, gathers this proletariat into gigantic armies, disciplines and arms its gravedigger!

Comrades. As Marx rightly pointed out, and Engels argued, and we all understand, socialism must first win in the most industrialized countries, where the most numerous and class-conscious proletariat. But the general war provides another possibility. A military coup becomes at the same time a proletarian, revolutionary coup. The army today is the proletariat! The main thing is to take power! And then - flare up! Let's start with our country.

And how nice it would be to start directly from Switzerland, comrades!...

The setting for a coup, a civil war, a world revolution - settled in the brains of these revolutionaries, dreamers, lumpen, idlers, fanatics, losers, parasites, ambitious people, guardians of the people and justice.

Of course, the ruling class will never give up its positions without a struggle, comrades. The capitalist will never give up his property without fierce resistance. The suppression of resistance is inevitable.

3. Switzerland is outrageously expensive. And professional revolutionaries did not want to work categorically. Firstly, against the bourgeoisie, and secondly, all forces are needed for the struggle. ...

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