The book of Nikolai Starikov, the author of the best-selling books "Geopolitics: How It Is Done," "How Russia Was Betrayed" and others, is dedicated to the events of the Civil War. Almost ninety years have passed since February and October, but there is still no clear explanation of how and why the Russian Empire collapsed into oblivion. You begin to look closely at the events of those years and wonder incessantly: accidents, amazing coincidences, strange actions of statesmen... Who forced Nicholas II to renounce power in February 1917? How did it happen that in just eight months Kerensky and the Provisional Government destroyed a great power? Why did "Great October" happen in the capital of Russia so easily and practically without casualties? There are questions - but no answers. But there is a starting point from which you can start to unwind a tangle of false piles and criminal omissions.