Границы и Трактовки Предательства в Партийном Правосудии Рсдрп и Пср и Субкультуре Российского Революционера в Первой Трети Хх в

Starting from the assumption that the notion of “subculture” is essential for a proper understanding of the revolutionary movement in Russia, the authors examine one of the key elements of Russian revolutionary subculture — the system of behavioural norms distinguishing the permissible from the impermissible. The article examines the emergence in revolutionary circles of the notion of treason, of what it included and which form of punishment it entailed. Drawing on a wide variety of sources the authors construct something akin to a hierarchy of degrees of treason. They argue that in the course of the 1920s and 1930s in circles of the oppositionist socialists and anarchists, who were the living embodiment and continuation of the subculture of the Russian revolutionary, attitudes towards comrades who took the side of the regime tended to get harder and more uncompromising. One of the consequences of the “moral experimentation” of the Bolsheviks after their rise to power was the transformation of Russian revolutionary subculture and the emergence of an essentially new subculture among subaltern rival revolutionary groups, characterised by different concepts of treason and defection.