The purpose of this paper is to outline the issues concerning critical analysis of historical discourse. Today the study of a text has extended to the analysis of discourse. Discourse is defined in different ways. The most appropriate definition is the one connected with the text as the focus of a situational context. Thus, by historical discourse is implied a historical text or an array of historical texts integrated in a certain historical context. Historical discourse is poly-discursive in its nature as it embraces different texts reflecting diverse aspects of human life in the past. On the bases of numerous and multidiscursive primary sources historians endeavor to interpret events of the past selected for analysis. The primary sources display only fragments of the life in the past. Despite the desire of historians to be objective they are not free from the ideology determined by their class or party and try to impose on the readers their own understanding of events of the past by using different persuasive strategies.