Troubles. 1919 year. Why did the White Guards lose? Some researchers point out that there were too few whites. The Reds simply “filled up with corpses”. Other historians look deeper and note that the white project was a pro-Western, liberal-democratic project, that is, it turned out to be unacceptable for the Russians.
White draft
The White Project was a continuation of the liberal-democratic project for the development of Russia, which the Februaryist revolutionaries put forward during the February-March revolution of 1917. Westerners and Freemasons, the liberal "elite" of Russia, killed the Russian autocracy. They believed that tsarism was preventing Russia from following the western path of development. That Russia is a civilizational, cultural periphery of the Western world, of European civilization. That Russia needs to be fully integrated into Europe, discarding mossy vestiges such as autocracy and the unity of church and state.
Thus, Westernizers, liberals proceeded from the possibility of full economic, cultural and ideological integration of Russia into European civilization. Even a stuffed animal, even a carcass. Make Russia "sweet" France, Holland or England. In this respect, today's Russian liberals are no better. They are infected with the same disease of Eurocentrism. Hence, practically all the current problems of Russia and the Russian people.
It was planned to create a bourgeois-democratic society in Russia, the distinctive features of which were parliamentary-type democracy or constitutional monarchy, an independent judiciary, political pluralism, the secular nature of society, a market economy, etc. … That is, they knew very well that in the West "democracy" is just a sign. In reality, Western democracies stand on a strictly hierarchical system of secret power in order, Masonic structures and networks. That the Western economic and political elite have been brought up and raised in a closed system of clubs and lodges since their youth. That an "independent" judicial system is in fact based on corporate agreements and a system of arbitration for the "elite", the real masters of life. The market economy became the basis for monopoly structures of financial and industrial capital, which concentrates the main financial flows and profits. Ideological, political pluralism became the basis for the manipulation of public consciousness. The created social security system was supposed to prevent massive social discontent.
The problem was that the Western European version of Russia's development suited European countries, but not Russians. Moreover, the Western development project that the Romanovs introduced (the peak of their activity was Peter I, who cut through the "window to Europe") has already failed in Russia. This is proved by the deep contradictions that accumulated in the Romanov empire and the civilizational, design and state catastrophe of 1917. The Western project turned out to be unacceptable for the Russian people.
The paradox of the white (liberal) project in Russia was that the image of an attractive, rich and “sweet” future, acceptable to most of the educated and prosperous Russian society, had no chance of success among the masses. It is interesting that modern liberal Russia very quickly came to the same thing. Towards a dead end and degradation on the rails of pro-Western "modernization". For the pro-Western, liberal part of society, the new bourgeoisie, "new nobles" from officials and security officials, the image of the West is attractive and sweet. They strive with all their might to go there, transfer families, offspring and capital. The future is seen only in the West. They want to make Russia a stuffed animal or a carcass a part of Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok (or at least the Urals). At first, they were able to confuse the people with the help of methods of manipulating public consciousness, information processing and the benefits of a consumer society. However, as the foreign policy deteriorated (the global systemic crisis that triggered the outbreak of a new world war with the main front in the Middle East) and the internal political situation, with the successive destruction of basic social institutions - the state (gradual abandonment of its obligations to citizens, becoming a "night watchman"), science, school, health care, etc., the haze gradually subsides.
That is, the path of integration, the convergence of Russia with the West, the loss of its national identity and leading to catastrophe. There is a divergence of civilizational and national projects and, ultimately, the collapse and death of the Russian state and society. Westernization inevitably causes collapse and self-destruction. The fact is that the Western project has no chances in Russia at all.
Russian code and the Bolsheviks
Liberals are wrong at the core of their ideology. Russia, the Russian world is a special, distinctive civilization, not the West or the East. The more the Russian civilization code, the civilization project diverges from the political projects of its own elite, the closer and more terrible the turmoil. Trouble is the response of the Russian civilization and the people to the erroneous course of the elite. The way to "reset" Russia, change its elite.
The Westernization of the Romanovs blew up and destroyed the Russian Empire. The Russian people cannot be recoded, made of Russian Europeans. The split, the gap between the westernized Russian elite (including the intelligentsia) and the people who preserved powerful deep traditional cultural and civilizational layers and caused the catastrophe of 1917. And then the Western liberals who seized power (the Provisional Government) decided to carry out an even deeper integration of Russia and the West. And the full-scale Russian turmoil began.
The White Project was a continuation of the pro-Western liberal project of the Februaryist revolutionaries who wanted to regain power and make Russia a part of the "enlightened" West. His victory would have finally killed Russia and the Russian people. Russia would become the prey of western and eastern predators. At its core, it was an anti-people project. It is clear that at a deep subconscious level the people knew this. Therefore, the White Guards, although often outwardly they were more attractive than the Reds, did not receive massive popular support. Hence the smaller number of their armies, in comparison with the Red Army. Therefore, about a third of the generals and officers of "old Russia" supported the Reds, a third was for the Whites, the rest remained neutral, immediately fled, became ordinary bandits or servants of the new national regimes.
The people supported the red project. On the one hand, the Bolsheviks were creating a completely new world, decisively breaking with the past. This was consistent with the logic of development, “old Russia” committed suicide. If whites tried to reanimate a dead society, then the Bolsheviks, on the contrary, began to create a new reality, a new empire. At the same time, the old world perished under the weight of its problems, as a result of the mistakes of its development, and not because of the actions of the Bolsheviks. Of course, to the best of their ability, they helped the destruction. But the main contribution to the destruction of the Russian Empire was made by the Westernized Februaryists, the elite of "old Russia" - politicians, members of the Duma, generals, aristocrats, grand dukes, members of Masonic lodges, the liberal intelligentsia, demanding to destroy "rotten tsarism".
On the other hand, the red project had a deeply national, Russian component (later it was associated with the name of Stalin - Stalinism). The Bolsheviks absorbed values fundamental to Russian civilization and the people, such as justice, the primacy of truth over the law, the spiritual principle over the material, the general over the particular, conciliarity (unity) over the individual. Bolshevism took up the old work ethic traditional for Russians (and left over by the Old Believers) - with the fundamental importance of work in the life and everyday life of the people. The Bolsheviks had an image of a happy future for everyone (except for social parasites) - communism. The Red World rejected the Western world based on the spirit of plunder, looting, appropriation and parasitism. Communism stood on the primacy of labor and knowledge. Planetariums, houses of culture and creativity, factories and laboratories against taverns and brothels.
Thus, the Bolsheviks had an image of an attractive future for the people. The red project (without internationalism and Trotskyism) basically coincided with the Russian civilizational, national one. Therefore, the Reds received massive popular support. Also, the Bolsheviks had will, energy and faith. They were ready to die for their ideas. Plus organization and iron discipline. So the Bolsheviks turned out to be the only force that, after the actual death of the Russian Empire in February - March 1917, was able to start building a new life on the ashes and create a new reality, a world, a new Russian (Soviet) empire.
