The article reconstructs the intervention of a series of Argentinean student groups and magazines that attempted to link the burgeoning University Reform movement to the international revolutionary wave triggered by Russia and, therefore, to the local Bolshevik Left between 1918 and 1922. By highlighting the students’ revolutionary enthusiasm, the article seeks to show that the well-known Latin American and anti-imperialist identity of the Reform, as characterized by the historiography on the subject, only takes shape after 1923. The study also pursues the following objectives: on the one hand, to qualify the thesis according to which the Argentinean student movement held a moderate political position during the first decades of the 20th century, and, on the other, to contribute with new clarifications to studies on the reception of the Russian Revolution and the cartography of Argentinean leftist movements.