Империя должна умереть: история русских революций в лицах, 1900–1917

Ėta kniga byla napisana v 2017 godu, k stoletii͡u dvukh russkikh revoli͡ut͡siĭ - Fevralʹskoĭ i Okti͡abrʹskoĭ. V neĭ shag za shagom proslezhivaetsi͡a, kak razvivalisʹ sobytii͡a, kotorye priveli imperatorskiĭ dom Romanovykh k besslavnomu padenii͡u, a Rossii͡u - k krupneĭsheĭ istoricheskoĭ katastrofe, posledstvii͡a kotoroĭ ne izzhity do sikh por. Avtor obrashchaetsi͡a k mnogochislennym pisʹmennym svidetelʹstvam tekh dneĭ - arkhivnym dokumentam, pisʹmam, gazetam, vozzvanii͡am, memuaram, - chtoby poni͡atʹ, kakie prichiny priveli k gibeli rezhima, kazavshegosi͡a nezyblemym. Byl li on obrechen, kto prinimal neposredstvennoe uchastie v ėtikh sobytii͡akh i pochemu Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo molodoĭ demokraticheskoĭ Rossii ne smoglo predotvratitʹ bolʹshevistskiĭ perevorot, stavshiĭ pervym shagom k ustanovlenii͡u odnoĭ iz samykh mrachnykh diktatur KhKh veka? Ėtu knigu izdatelʹstvo 'Meduzy' pereizdaet sovmestno s izdatelʹstvom Zygaro. Mikhail Zygarʹ - politicheskiĭ zhurnalist, dokumentalist, pisatelʹ; byvshiĭ glavnyĭ redaktor telekanala 'Dozhdʹ'. Avtor knig 'Vsi͡a kremlevskai͡a ratʹ', 'Vse svobodny', 'Voĭna i nakazanie: kak Rossii͡a unichtozhala Ukrainu', 'Temnai͡a storona Zemli. Istorii͡a o tom, kak sovetskiĭ narod pobedil Sovetskiĭ Soi͡uz' (dve poslednie napechatany sovmestno s izdatelʹstvom 'Meduzy').

This book was written in 2017, on the centenary of two Russian revolutions — the February and October. It traces step by step how the events unfolded that led the imperial house of Romanov to an inglorious fall, and Russia to a major historical catastrophe, the consequences of which have not been eliminated to this day. The author refers to the numerous written testimonies of those days — archival documents, letters, newspapers, appeals, memoirs — to understand what reasons led to the demise of the regime, which seemed unshakable. Was he doomed, who was directly involved in these events, and why was the Provisional Government of young democratic Russia unable to prevent the Bolshevik coup, which was the first step towards establishing one of the darkest dictatorships of the twentieth century? Medusa Publishing house is republishing this book jointly with Zygaro publishing house. Mikhail Zygar is a political journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer; former editor—in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel. Author of books 'The whole Kremlin army', 'Everyone is free', 'War and Punishment: how Russia destroyed Ukraine', 'The Dark Side of the Earth. The story of how the Soviet people defeated the Soviet Union' (the last two were published jointly with the Medusa publishing house).