N.A. ROZHKOV IN SIBERIAN EXILE AND THE NEWSPAPER "IRKUTSKOE SLOVO" (MAY 1910 - JANUARY 1912)

. This article highlights the ideological evolution and publicistic work of the historian and social democrat N.A. Rozhkov in Siberia from May 1910 to January 1912 and his influence on political exiles and democratic readers of the newspaper "Irkutskoe slovo". The article's focus is the transition of Rozhkov from radical revolutionism to social democratic reformism based on the possibility of the peaceful transformation of "predatory capitalism" to "civilized capitalism". It is shown that the Tsarist system of punishment by exile of those convicted for political reasons not only could not eradicate serious opposition to authority but could not even stop the work of influential revolutionary and oppositionary groups.