Политик рубежа столетий: в поисках самоидентификации

Российская история. 2020. № 2. С. 25–30.

Solovyov K.

This article attempts to fit Lenin's views into the context of party building at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, which was carried out in the various segments of the Russian political movement. The author proves that Lenin's ideas about forms of political participation, party organization and tactics became a response to the challenges of the time, to which all political forces responded in one way or another.   Lenin offered one of the options for the answer, which partly coincided with what his opponents were insisting. Moreover, the political movement of that time was relatively poorly differentiated.  The boundaries that separated one current from another were quite conditional. In all such associations, the key role was played by the intelligentsia, whose membership implied following a certain model of political behavior. This also applied to the Bolsheviks, whose party model was a special case of all-Russian practice.

Keywords: политические партии, большевизм, Ленин