Pensar a Revolução Soviética no século XXI: Revolução e estratégias identitárias

Abstract

The problematics of social identities has been one of the main strands explored in Soviet and post-Soviet studies, above all after the 1990s. These studies have contributed to deepen an understanding of the Soviet Revolution, at the same time allowing for articulation within the centrality of identity issues in the current historical setting. Taking up the spirit of such studies, but also that of research in Portugal which has endeavoured to develop an overall anthropology of identity processes, this article sets out to re-analyse the evolution of Lenin’s thought and of that of the Bolshevist regime, in the light of Russia’s ambivalent identity stance between Asia and Europe, between East and West. To this end, the concept of “border identity” is applied to clarify the oscillations which characterise the strategic choices made by Russian communists in the geopolitical realm.

Keywords

• Soviet Studies
• Post-Soviet Studies
• Soviet revolution
• social identity