Issue #51

Abstract: The article analyzes the idea of L.N. Krasnopevtsev, who believed the revolutionary and post–revolutionary path of Russia’s development as a struggle between the white autocracy of the Romanovs and the red autocracy of Lenin-Stalin. Red autocracy was considered theoretically and practically unified, excluding the division into Leninism and Stalinism. However, the analysis of events indicates that initially similar revolutionary and terrorist methods used by the “leaders” of the revolution had different ultimate goals. If Lenin sought to create a state like the Paris Commune, then Stalin, who during the civil war proved himself to be a self-serving, power-hungry, ambitious man using conspiracy to achieve his goals, made the guiding idea of autocracy, which he brought to totalitarian rule.