REVOLUTION OF THE 1917 IN THE PERCEPTION OF THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA

The article contains the comparison between the perceptions of the revolutionary events of the 1917 which were reflected in the diaries and journalistic works by the prominent Russian writers and thinkers: Nicolai Berdyaev, Alexander Blok, Sergei Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Zinaida Gippius, Maxim Gorky, Youri Gauthier, Mikhail Prishvin, Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov, Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank and others. The author reveals some key themes in their works which were written in the 1917–1918: recognition of the irreversibility of the revolutionary changes; disappointment with the former visions and beliefs in the people and the intelligentsia; the crisis of the humanistic values. She argues that the representatives of the Russian intelligentsia searched solutions of the urgent problems in the classic Russian literature and the works of historians; literature and history proved to be the only milestone in the midst of the crisis of values.