Ideology and Practice of Labour Populist-Socialistic Party in a Modern Russian Historiography

Abstract

Russian historiography of neopopulist movements, and in particular, history of labour populist-socialistic party is analysed in article. The author not only has revealed the basic stages of studying of the given problematics by Russian historians, but also has estimated concepts of some historians: V.V. Zverev, A.A. Fedorenko, and. A.V. Sypchenko, M.I. Leonov and others to whom managed to look in a new fashion at the maintenance of the ideological concept of party on a basis earlier not known sources, and during carrying out of the comparative analysis with doctrines of other parties. Revealing of theoretical positions (idea of statehood, etatism, nationalisation, the critical relation to Marxism) which have allowed party to occupy the niche in a spectrum of political movements became a result of these researches.