Oktobrska revolucija med mitom in realnostjo

The paper discusses ideological notions and myths in comparison with the reality of the October Revolution. Numerous works published in the period after the crucial year 1989 have gathered evidence and articulations, on the basis of which we can – paradoxically, only from the distance of a hundred years – in a more authentic manner deliberate upon the October Revolution as such and upon its further development. The article entails four thematic fields: i) overtaking of power through the insurgence of masses vs. coup d'état; ii) Lenin vs. Stalin: ideality and its deviation into totalitarianism; iii) the progressive Yugoslav vs. the Russian dogmatic communism with regard to the case of literary depictions of communist camps; iv) the role of revolution in the formation of the Russian avant-garde art.