ABSTRACT
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and the 80th of Gramci’s death, the present essay aims at contributing to the historical contextualization of his personalty and his thought, following an approach clearly consolidated in the most recent studies. The subject of the relation between Gramci and Leninism and Bolchevism was debated infinite times, but today, a quarter of a century after the end of Communism in Europe and in Russia, we can free ourselves from definitory and ideological limitations. A way of doing it is reconstructing the many threads that linked Gramci’s trajectory before prison and after, in jail, with the central experience of the Russian Revolution. These threads are interlaced with his entire biography from 1917 on, to the point that it is not easy to isolete the subject itself and furnish interpretative clues capable of putting together comentaries, perceptions, analysis, strategies or reflexions. It has, nevertheless, to be done if we want to better understand the nexus between political action and thought. What we suggest is that isolating the theme of the Russian Revolution it will be possible to see the formation of the main cathegories of Gramci’s political thought.
Keywords:
Gramsci; Russian Revolution; Soviet State