Grachev N.I. I.V. Stalin’s Political and Legal Ideology: General Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2023.3.10
Nikolay I. Grachev, Doctor of Sciences (Jurisprudence), Professor, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Volgograd Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Istoricheskaya St, 130, 400089 Volgograd, Russian Federation, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0799-1903
Introduction. The study of the state and law of the USSR, whose successor and legal continuer is the modern Russian Federation, is impossible in isolation from the activities and political outlook of I.V. Stalin, one of its founders and state leader for almost thirty years. The subject of the paper is the discourse analysis of the political and legal ideology of I.V. Stalin by studying the ontological and epistemological prerequisites of its content and identifying on this basis the historical and cultural conditionality of its conceptual idea. Methods. The methodological framework for the work is a set of methods of scientific cognition, among which the main ones are a combination of dialectics and metaphysics, formational and civilizational approaches, and a number of general scientific and specific scientific methods. The main content of the paper is to establish the features of Stalin’s worldview as a politician and theorist and to study the main points of view on the general nature of his political ideology to provide its most adequate scientific description and definition. Results and conclusions. In relation to the general discourse of I.V. Stalin’s political ideology, the most adequate definitions would be “national Bolshevism” for the period of its formation and crystallization and “national-state socialism” for a later period, which characterizes its content in its mature and final version much more accurately. The fundamental conceptual formula of the Russian nationalization of the communist doctrine was the Stalinist idea of the possibility of building socialism in one single country. It became the value foundation of Stalin’s socio-political project, in whose theoretical justification there was a creative synthesis of the teachings of Marxism-Leninism with the traditions of Russian statehood.
Key words: political ideology, national Bolshevism, national-state socialism, Marxism-Leninism, socialist state, socialist revolution, world revolution, traditions of Russian statehood.
Citation. Grachev N.I. I.V. Stalin’s Political and Legal Ideology: General Discourse. Legal Concept = Pravovaya paradigma, 2023, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 67-78. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2023.3.10
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