title: The Permanent Revolution (Thinking about the Russian Revolution)
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metadata.value: Caprio, S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T15:19:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T15:19:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Caprio S. ‘The Permanent Revolution (Thinking about the Russian Revolution)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018, pp. 8–28.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9295
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author of the article reflects on the Russian revolution of 1917 in the context of the main trends in
  the development of world history at the end of the 20th and 21st centuries. Conflict of ideologies, distrust of the
  masses toward political institutions and other problems of modern society in a new “globalized” world make the
  idea of a “permanent revolution” again urgent. This idea, however, is developing in new forms which are different
  from those of the 20th century. Considering some modern Western concepts of development and Russian philosophical
  and religious thought, the author raises the question of “anthropological catastrophe” and the possibility
  of new apocalypses in history. That is why in the centennial anniversary of the Russian revolution, special
  attention should be paid to the essence of the events that took place. The collapse of tsarism eventually led to
  the victory of Bolshevism because of the lack of reliable alternatives. The true lesson of the Russian revolution was the impotence of democracy and liberal ideology, which proved to be insufficient for understanding reality
  and lacking those models that could be applied to the Russian situation. Populism and rude propaganda against
  culture and religion won. The intelligentsia turned out to be the biggest category that was defeated. The new
  government was actually organized as the “overturned religion” of denying God and as the “Red Church” of the
  party-helmsman. Today there is a new populist rhetoric and a new religion typical of the third millennium which
  deifies no longer the party, but the “people” in the fragmented and virtual form of the world of the information
  revolution. “The mysticism of the revolution” has come to life in the second decade of the 21st century, and much
  of what was as a perspective hundred years ago has arisen in modern Russia.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 8; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 1917
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: permanent revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: new apocalypse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian historiosophy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Permanent Revolution (Thinking about the Russian Revolution)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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