The book of 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 (the "Soviet project"), which allowed it to achieve impressive results in all areas of social and economic life in the shortest possible time. "At one time Prishvin, who negatively perceived the October Revolution, was nevertheless forced to admit that it meant a civilizational choice, that a revolution of this magnitude is a resolution of a crisis incomparably deeper than political or social.