The article is devoted to the history of the emergence and main stages in the development of the Russian revolutionary movement and the Polish liberation movement in the 19 th – early 20 th centuries in the space of the Russian Empire, analysis of the nature of communication
between the two movements, identification of common and specific features of the Russian and Polish radical subcultures of this era, Analysis of the value orientations of the participants in the two movements.
Keywords
radicalism; Polish liberation movement; socialism; populism; revolutionary terrorism; political subcultures.