Representation of Political Culture of the Siberian Social-Democrats in Publications of the Second Half of the 1930-1950s
The article examines historiography of ideological positions and intra-party relations as phenomena of the Siberian social-democrats' political culture before and during the First Russian Revolution. The author identifies conditions, peculiarities and contradictions of the historical science development in the USSR in the second half of the 1930s - the 1950s. Influence of these factors on the process of studying the Siberian social-democrats' political culture is revealed. The paper considers why the Soviet historians of that period neglected the problem of opportunism in the Siberian social-democratic movement.