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Memories Shulgin is not enough that well-written, and objective. Shulgin, a person is not leftist, does not justify the whites only for the fact that they are not red, and honestly wrote that he had seen what was in exile in many disliked. And we love it for the truth and the power of writing. From the author: "useless, of course, remind you that we live in an era that will be very interested in our descendants. But maybe you should think about the fact that the Russian Revolution would be written as much a lie as to the French. Of these lies will emerge again any new trouble. For us it is clear. We are contemporaries of the Russian Revolution (beginning in 1917), well-known role in this misfortune played a false image of the French Revolution. Therefore the utmost importance for our future truthful image of what is happening before our eyes. Of course, the time for the image of our tragedy in all its scope, so to speak with the crane's height has not come yet. You can not, on the other hand, is intimate and the image of our life, that is. e. we loved, hated, suffered and rejoiced - key, without which, of course, future historians do not understand. Or understand at random, as they always do. But we can and must write down what each of us has seen firsthand. This essay is the experience and write down "slices of life", ran in front of my eyes. I chose 1920 as the next. "