Abstract

This article disputes the prevailing thesis according to which the Soviet revolution represented an irreparable rift in the Western cultural tradition and even a form of destruction of universal culture. The revolution of the Bolsheviks was inspired on the theoretical level by the dialectical method elaborated by classical German philosophy and by Marxism, which constituted the historical continuation of that philosophy. Despite the great contradictions that accompanied it, and which can be explained by the very severe political struggles on the internal and the international level with which it was forced to measure itself, the era of revolution was characterized by a great flowering of political rights, economic and social and inspired a broad cultural renewal movement that has influenced historical processes even beyond Soviet Russia.