Морис Жоли

Ėta kniga - ne tolʹko biografii͡a cheloveka, operedivshego svoe vremi͡a. Ėto rasskaz o Parizhe, o Vtoroĭ imperii, o barone Osmane, o krakhe pri Sedane, o Parizhskoĭ Kommune, o rozhdenii Tretʹeĭ respubliki. O tom, kak demokratii͡a prevrashchaetsi͡a v diktaturu, esli ėtomu ne prepi͡atstvovatʹ. Biografii͡a Morisa Zholi vazhna dli͡a nas v pervui͡u ocheredʹ potomu, chto on okazalsi͡a providt͡sem. V svoeĭ knige 'Razgovory Makiavelli i Monteskʹe v t͡sarstve mertvykh' Zholi, ustami velikogo florentiĭt͡sa, izlagaet podrobnyĭ plan prevrashchenii͡a liberalʹnogo gosudarstva v diktaturu. V seredine XIX veka nash geroĭ chudesnym obrazom zagli͡anul v budushchee i opisal to, chto v 1930-kh godakh predprini͡al Gitler v Germanii, a v 2000-kh - Putin v Rossii. Opisal v tochnosti, podrobno, shag za shagom. Odnako, raskryv tekhnologii͡u prigotovlenii͡a i͡ada, Zholi dal nam i protivoi͡adie. Vospolʹzui͡utsi͡a li im sledui͡ushchie pokolenii͡a? Sumei͡ut li zashchititʹ demokratii͡u, pozvoli͡at li sledui͡ushchemu diktatoru tvoritʹ svoe gri͡aznoe delo, prevrashchai͡a t͡selyĭ narod v stado rabov?

This book is not only a biography of a man who was ahead of his time. This is a story about Paris, about the Second Empire, about Baron Haussmann, about the collapse of Sedan, about the Paris Commune, about the birth of the Third Republic. About how democracy turns into a dictatorship if left unchecked. The biography of Maurice Joly is important to us primarily because he turned out to be a visionary. In his book Machiavelli and Montesquieu's Conversations in the Realm of the Dead, Joly, through the mouth of the great Florentine, outlines a detailed plan for turning a liberal state into a dictatorship. In the middle of the 19th century, our hero miraculously looked into the future and described what Hitler had done in Germany in the 1930s and Putin in Russia in the 2000s. I described it exactly, in detail, step by step. However, having revealed the technology of preparing the poison, Joly also gave us the antidote. Will the next generations use it? Will they be able to protect democracy, will they allow the next dictator to do his dirty work, turning an entire nation into a herd of slaves?