The author tries to understand the causes and the significance of the Russian revolution of 1917 and argues with different «conspiracy» and «educational» explanations of the revolution. The author comes to a conclusion that the revolution was caused
by the internal laws of Russian development. The article contains ways of further study
of the Russian revolution as the great historic phenomenon.
Keywords
revolution, V.I. Lenin, the вolsheviks, the anarchists, the crisis.
