Revolution and Myth

The article is dedicated to the centenary of the October revolution in Russia. In this context, the author considers here several related questions of philoso-phical and methodological nature. Among them there are: the study of change in the assessment of the revolutionary process in general, and their manifesta-tion in particular; the causes and consequences of the emergence of updated versions of what was happening a century ago, and also the influence of these innovations on the traditional scheme of the idea of the revolution itself. The author focuses also on the comparative analysis of the scientific, philosophical, artistic and mythological ways of perception of the revolutionary events with the aim of studying the possibilities of their more or less close interpenetration in the course of primary and the modern mythologizing of the Russian revolu-tion of 1917, and any other radical movements of the masses.

революция, мифологизация, историческое развитие, превращенная форма, культуротворчество, социальные интересы, на-учное познание, философское осмысление, художественное восприятие, ценностное обоснование, revolution, mythologizing, historical development, developed form, cultural education, social interests, scientific knowledge, philosophical reflection, artistic perception, value justification

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