Representation of the “Enemy” category in revolutionary political discourse of Oliver Cromwell and Maximilien Robespierre

Abstract

The article is focused on comparative analysis of a concept of the enemy of revolution as it was represented by two of its leaders, Oliver Cromwell and Maximilian Robespierre. The comparison is based on such sources as their speeches, letters and journalistic works. The article’s author reconstructs two separated by more than a century landscapes of revolutionary society in terms of its division into supporters and opponents of the revolution. The article centers on the transformation of the “enemy” category that had occurred during the period between the two revolutions, on the specific revolutionary “enemy classification” and on the place of the named category in general revolutionary power.