THE CONCEPT OF "REVOLUTION" IN THE EPIC "RED WHEEL" AND THE JOURNALISTIC WORKS OF A.I. SOLZHENITSYN: CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SYNTHESIS

Abstract

At present, the issues of studying historical experience, restoring cultural and historical memory, articulating national-specific features and properly comprehending crucial events for the history of Russia are of particular importance. One of the universal and relevant sources here are literary and artistic works written by outstanding and recognized authors. A significant phenomenon in this regard is the revolution and its comprehensive study. Consideration of the concept of "revolution" in the epic "Red Wheel" and the journalistic works of A.I. Solzhenitsyn through cultural and philosophical synthesis is the purpose of this work. The methodological basis of the study was made up of both general scientific and interdisciplinary methods. During the work on the article, the author mainly turned to the cultural philosophical synthesis. According to the results of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the concept of "revolution" is presented ambivalently in the epic "Red Wheel" (as a positive and negative event). As a positive event, the revolution is presented as a phenomenon of rare spiritual beauty, a continuous celebration of hearts, a musical and attractive event. At the same time, the revolution symbolizes the truth, the renunciation of arbitrariness, concretizes the truth, and also heals the people's soul. The revolution as a negative event is depicted in the narrative as robbery, chaos, cruelty, stupidity, a bloody explosion, characterized by a spontaneous and uncontrollable course. In the space of publicistic works, A. I. Solzhenitsyn also comprehensively comprehended the phenomenon of revolutions, dividing them into moral and physical. The writer considered moral revolutions an unexplored saving phenomenon, the only possible way of radical transformation, a symbol of evolution. Physical revolutions, on the contrary, undermine the historical process, as they are unnatural, pathogenic in nature, sow chaos, bring to life base instincts, the decline of morals, the disintegration of the family, universal hatred. Such revolutions are often born under the guise of denial of culture, morality and religion.