Social Stratification and Political Identities in Socio-Political Discourses of the Late Russian Empire: on the Materials of Verbatim Reports of the First State Duma

The main goal of this work is to identify the specifics of political languages (structure and relations between the concepts) depending on the affiliation of the First Duma deputies to segments of the socio-political space and their political position, as well as the ability of these languages to be the basis for productive political interaction. Following the methodology developed in the traditions of intellectual history, the history of concepts (Pocock, Skinner) and discourse analysis (Foucault, Van Dijk) and referring both to the transcripts of the First Duma meetings and to the research literature, an attempt is made to identify the specific features of the use of basic for the socio-political discourse of the late Russian Empire, concepts which in this context marks not only community, but also becoming an example of performative utterance, whose main goal is the transformation of the reality (Austin).