Revolution is a Force of Guardian: Mikhail Lifshitz and Andrey Platonov

In the introduction of the article, there is an inspired by Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right proposition that the Russian revolution was in world history the second attempt after the French revolution to build the real and, consequently, reasonable state. At the same time, unlike French one, the Russian revolution relied not on subjective opinion of crowd but on objective scientific research – on political economy of Karl Marx. In the process of revolution the people of Russia, having taken the power in their own hands, started conscious transformation of a way of life and, in a short period of time, achieved such a level of education that any people in the world had not achieved before. That gave ground to Mikhail Lifshitz and Andrey Platonov to treat the revolutionary events that started in Russia with the revolution of 1917 as the great national revolution. The article demonstrates a fundamental difference between reactionary and revolutionary conservatism. Based on the works of Lifshitz and Platonov, it is proved that they were revolutionary conservatives. For this reason, they understood revolutionary denial of the old regime as a way of conservation of positive achievements of world and Russian culture. In the conclusion, the author reveals the reasons of curtailment of Russian national revolution in the 1990s. The author argues that the continuation of reunion of high and popular cultures in Russia is impossible without education system that needs to be created on the basis of logical philosophy as a result of the historical development of classical philosophical thought from Thales to Hegel. 

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