The First Anniversary of the October Revolution and the Expectations of the World Revolution

Abstract

The paper is focused on the first anniversary of the Revolution on November 7 as political events and as specific political time. The representation of the idea of world revolution played an significant role in the early Soviet festivals. The euphoric atmosphere of the October celebrations, which sought to develop the festival organizers, was used by various forces for the replication of ideas about the new era in world history. Celebratory propaganda played an important role in the formation of an image of the power in particular, the images of Soviet leaders how the leaders of the world revolution. Available database sources (primarily news stories, minutes of meetings of authorities, visual materials, resolutions, poems) suggests that these texts were full of religious metaphors and allusions. The Bolsheviks, who feel themselves politicians that change the course of world history, saw the occasion as a special sacred time. Quasi-religious political language was been used for legitimization of power and sacralization of Civil war.