In my opinion, the best definition of Bolshevism was given by the famous Soviet chess player Viktor Korchnoi. He cited three basic principles of Bolshevism:.

Who is not with us, then against us.

If the enemy does not give up, it must be destroyed.

We do not know how, but we will achieve the goal.

Bolshevism arose in its time as the teaching of several insanely ambitious, and morally unscrupulous people. By the way, and the conviction of many little educated people that the first Bolsheviks were intellectual elite are deeply mistaken. At best, the first Bolsheviks possessed an extremely eclectic and low professional education. Of course, against the backdrop of the then educated class.

But in the time of triumphant populism in the society of egregious paternalism, their militant ignorance multiplied by unlimited terror turned out to be a powerful political force.

The most terrible lesson of the 100th anniversary of October is that he did not become a lesson. The Ukrainian Maidan began as a triumph of democracy and tolerance. But this time has passed. In Ukraine, the logic of Bolshevism is now flourishing with no less success than in October 1917 in Petrograd.