Conclusion

Abstract

The popularity of the French Revolution was grounded in the fact that it was a model for understanding the revolutionary process in Russia. Yet its popularity was not only owing to the similarities of events in the two countries. The French Revolution was what could be called an archetypical event. Civilization has always embraced events of this sort and made them into symbols. For a long time, the French Revolution was a symbol of the West. And at the beginning of the twentieth century, the West dominated globally - politically, economically, culturally, and militarily. Indeed, those countries that had not come under Western influence were viewed not as being actually different - that is, as belonging to a different cultural dimension - but as ‘under developed’, as countries that would be absorbed into Western civilization at sometime in the future.