O século de Outubro, o papel dos intelectuais e a hipótese revolucionária.

This essay identifies key ideas associated with the Russian Revolution of October 1917 and its impact over more than a century. It highlights the emancipatory impact of the Revolution in its global and long­‑term aspects, while also emphasizing its inclusion as a crucial event in the processes of writing and interpreting contemporary history. Based on the great hopes it raised and the paths it followed and disseminated, its echoes are articulated with the role of propaganda, reflection and artistic and intellectual creation, as well as with its agents, as dynamic instruments of political change, cultural transformation and the production of a socialist ideal. In connection with this process, reference is also made to the place of the public intellectual and the reformulation of the very concept of revolution in relation to historical knowledge and the impact of memory, associating it with the fruitful dimension introduced by nostalgia and utopia. Overall, the essay offers an interpretative historical sense of the impact of the October Revolution throughout the twentieth century [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]