This work has the general objective of analyzing the change in the concept of mentality of the
Russian population from the socialist revolution under the Deweyan perspective in 1928. From
this problem, it is interesting to highlight that the Russian population undergoes a Revolution
in 1917, retreats from a world war in 1914-1918, suffers great pressure from the population to
want to change for different reasons, with about 80 percent illiterate, fighting only for bread,
peace and land. The Russian socialist revolutionary process is complex, challenging and
innovative, because not only does the economic, political and social system change, but also
the citizen undergoes a profound transformation and mainly from a capitalist individualism to
a socialist collective behavior. To explore the events, we intend to approach a methodological
attitude based on historical materiality that explains the fact in its entirety, and we will have the
challenge of analyzing these transformations that took place in Russia through the eyes of the
American philosopher John Dewey who visits Russia and publishes articles on your
impressions. We were careful to organize this work in three chapters. The first chapter aims to
report on John Dewey's theoretical foundation with its main categories, namely: education,
experience, democracy, freedom and interest. The second chapter seeks to situate the reader of
the Russian historical context and antecedents of the 1917 Revolution and the subjects who
were part of this process. The third chapter is contributed by the book by John Dewey written
in 1929 called “The impressions of Soviet Russia and the Revolutionary World” translated by
Carlos Lucena in 2016. Given this source, we looked for how many times Dewey used the word
mentality and we tried to associate in what context it was applied in the collective, freedom or
autonomy, we found 25 appearances in the book, being 12 by commentators and 13 by the
philosopher himself.
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