ABSTRACT
An idiosyncrasy shared by as many as three Russian Revolutions, 1905-1906 and, twice, in 1917, was their radical egalitarianism. In all of these revolutions, just as with the earlier one in England, explicitly utopian slogans were raised to the status of systemic arrangements and became the permanent feature of a new standard setup of public institutions, unknown to humankind. The “utopia in power”, as classic researchers described it very soon turned into a totalitarian state, though. The system that arose from the Russian Revolutions turned into the opposite of the slogans chanted during the Bolshevik coup in 1917. The radicalism and egalitarianism of the Russian Revolutions went hand in hand with their anti-statist slant, reflecting the distrust in the state and its ruler that has been traditionally held in modern times, and which harkens back to the French Enlightenment’s classic doctrine of anti-absolutism.
