Abstract

Using a methodology that allows for pluralistic interpretation of historical reality, we examine the revolutionary paradigm as a return to centuries-old Russian history. This pluralism also applies to various interpretations of the role of individuals in history. We present two typical personality features that manifested during Russia’s Decembrist Revolt and the October Revolution, aristocratism and artistry. We also analyze a variety of concepts for treating historical reality: the rational and the irrational. The latter perspective is based on the argument that the “realized value is the irrational fact of history”, which no science can explain. The pluralism of methodologies and worldviews also includes F.M. Dostoevsky’s “believed-in meaning of history.” We address the problem of relationship between historical events by interpreting history through a typologization of personalities. A pluralism of historical theories allows the individual to act not from the position of the best possible, but from the position of the creative, artistic “many-souledness” of the bohemian.