This is a review of the collection of materials of International scientific conference «Rev­olution, evolution and the dialogue of cultures», which took place in the RAS Institute of Philosophy in November 2017 and was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution. The reviewers assume that, as a rule, discussions on a historic event are bene­ficial. Debates, even the hot ones, prevent us from reducing conceivable history to its mythological and ideological simplifications. The root of historical polemics lies in a con­ceptual dilemma that cannot be solved unambiguously: the main meanings of events are actualized either in the moment of their happening, or later, when we are removed from these events. The explication of a meaningful completeness is inevitably contradictory on the level of social consciousness; sometimes it is the same at the level of an individual consciousness. Different aspects of the Russian revolution are addressed by the authors of «Revolution, evolution and the dialogue of cultures». The reviewers found it reasonable to emphasize the two conceptual lines thoroughly developed in the book: the socio-cul­tural and the anthropological one.