"Just think of it, the whole of Russia has had its roof torn off, and you and I and everyone else are out in the open! And there's nobody to spy on us. Freedom! Real freedom, not just talk about it, freedon, dropped out of the sky, freedom beyond our expectations, freedom by accident, through a misunderstanding...
     Last night I was watching the meeting in the square. An extraordinary sight! Mother Russian is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and she can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop. And it isn't as if only people were talking. Stars and trees meet and converse, flowers talk philosophy at night, stone houses hold meetings. It makes you think of the Gospel, doesn't it? The days of the apostles. Remember St. Paul? You will speak with tongues and you will prophesy. Pray for the gift of understanding...it seems to me that socialism is the sea, and all these separate streams, these private, individual revolutions, are flowing into it- the sea of life, the sea of spontaneity. I said life, but I mean life as you see it in a great picture, transformed by genius, creatively enriched. Only now people have decided to experience it not in books and pictures but in themselves, not as an abstraction but in practice....I so much want to be a part of all this awakening."

I believe Pasternak uses Yura, as a character, to express his own ideas about the Revolution. Alter, Yura will see it differently, and his fervor will have transformed into foresight. then he will see what it was that was so entrancing about this time in Russia's history.