REVOLUTIONARIES OR EXTREMISTS: SELECTED ISSUES OF MODERN METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH OF THE REVOLUTION
The article presents the analysis of the permissibility of the use of the term"extremism" in the framework of the research revolution of 1917 and other revolutions. The author analyzes the fairly common approach, according to which the scope of the concept of extremism included historical processes and events related to the violent solution of political questions. While there is considerable selectivity and subjectivity in the use of the term"extremism" to historical events. The author believes that in this case is arbitrary and not justifiable the use of the later term for the analysis of historical events. Using a sufficiently broad empirical basis, the author shows the absence of the term"extremism" until the twentieth century. From the standpoint of the author, the term"extremism" is caused to indicate a qualitative transformation of violence in socio-political space that occurred in the twentieth century, and therefore its use is beyond the scope of this historical period is not justified. Largely it concerns the permissibility of the use of the term "extremism"to analyze the events of the 1917 revolution in Russia. The author shows that, with respect to this issue, the term"extremism" is empty or extremely vague concept. The use of the term"extremism"in the study of the revolution of 1917, is not only unreasonable, but also can substantially hinder the knowledge of how historical events and socio-political processes of modernity. Free use of the term in relation to the analysis of the revolutionary process not only can bring positive results for historical Sciences, but also creates unnecessary vagueness and uncertainty of the term "extremism".