Cultural factors of the Russian revolutions in the reflection of the philosophers of the Silver age

Comprehending the lessons of the Russian revolutions of the early 20 century, it would be useful to refer to the creative heritage of the philosophers of the Silver age. According to the authors the actual are not only living testimonies of direct participants in the events of that era. Even more important is the apparent impact of socio-cultural factors into models of protest behavior of large social groups, which is manifested in all the mass protests of the 21 century on the planet. In this regard, the relevant theoretical constructs of Russian philosophers, interpreting the events of the revolution as a direct consequence of the peculiarities of Russian culture. The modern era and the beginning of the 20 century unites the unfinished state of transit, of transition to new quality, high speed of technological and social change. For philosophers of the Silver age was typical of the awareness of a qualitative change of society. These changes are rightly perceived as a crisis. For these periods characteristic of the active search of answers to the challenges of the time, and Russia at the beginning of the last century, the mission of formulating these responses took on the philosophers. The understanding of culture has changed significantly as the result of creative work of the representatives of the Silver age. The philosophy of the Silver age acknowledged for the people's household culture is not just the right to exist, but also the right to become the object of philosophical reflection. This formulation of the problem proved to be productive. It led to the emergence of a new question of the relation between "upper" and "lower" layers of culture in General and Russian culture in particular. Full inclusion in the vertical structure of the culture of the "lower" people layer making it possible to begin to understanding the culture as a whole systems phenomenon. As a result, the General idea of the philosophy of the Silver age was the allegation of a shortage in Russia of the "median culture", uniting the "upper" and "lower" as a mandatory element of the culture system.