TO THE QUESTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT OCTOBER REVOLUTION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the international consequences of the Great October Revolution in view of its centenary. The authors note that in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to highlight the consequences of the revolution in a narrow and broad sense, positive and negative; consequences for the whole world and for individual regions and countries; consequences that were immediate and more remote in time; consequences from the point of view of Soviet historiography, foreign historiography, modern Russian historiography; consequences in certain spheres ideological, foreign policy, economic, social, cultural. The article proves the idea of the legitimacy of using the name The Great October Revolution. An attempt was made to apply the civilizational approach, in particular, A. Toynbee's concept of "challenge-response" to the problem under consideration. At the same time, it is noted that the socialist revolution is the fruit of Russian history. In this connection, the authors draw attention to the fact that the first sprouts of socialism (at that level of productive forces burdened by the consequences of the First World War) inevitably bore the features of their time, the imprint of the contemporary cultural and moral image. All this contained a contradiction of reality, of real life with the declared ideals and expectations of the masses, thwarted crisis potencies in the development of socialist society. Also, the relationship between the processes of modernization of traditional society and revolution is traced in the work. There is an undoubted influence of the October Revolution on the emergence of a social state or "welfare society" inWestern Europein the second half of the XX century. Attention is focused on the main ideological constructions of the XX century and their relationship with the ideas of the Russian revolution.