Discussions on causes of English revolution of the XVIIth century in contemporary British historiography

The article deals with approaches to comprehension of XVIIth century Revolution in England in contemporary British historical science. At the present moment, as the article shows, scientific influence and recognition of progressive approaches to comprehension of the English revolution represented by liberal and Marxist historians have considerably lessened. Liberal and Marxist paradigms are also striving for broad generalizations, and such traits of research became less convincing for most part of British historians in 1980s. The author analyzes the peculiarities of revisionist trend in study of causes of the English Revolution and shows that the revisionist trend exerted appreciable influence on historical researches during recent decades. The author concludes that the British researchers of the English Revolution who consider specific features of historical situations and prefer an individualizing approach in understanding history turn out to be more influential.