Grachev N.I. The Formation of Russia as a State-Civilization: From Ancient Rus to Soviet Russia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2025.3.4
Nikolay I. Grachev, Doctor of Sciences (Jurisprudence), Associate Professor, 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 theoretical recognition of such a model of organization of society as a state-civilization, which, according to many scientists, can become the main political form of a multipolar world, makes it necessary to analyze its most significant political and legal features. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in their identification and extrapolation to the historical context of the formation and development of Russian statehood. The methodological framework for the research is the civilizational approach in combination with the general scientific and special methods of cognition: system analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparative, historical and legal. The results of the study have allowed establishing that the signs of a state-civilization in the history of Russia manifested themselves in the era of the formation of the Ancient Russian state already, and in the Appanage and Mongol periods of its history, they allowed the Russian people to maintain a fairly high degree of religious, cultural and legal unity, becoming the foundation for the unification of the northeastern principalities of Russia around Moscow and the basis for the formation of a single a centralized state in the form of the Tsardom of Moscow, and then its transformation in the 16th century to the Eurasian empire, comparable in scale to the European, Islamic, Chinese, and Hindu civilizations. Conclusions: in the Moscow period, the whole set of political and legal constants was being formed, as permanent properties and qualities of the Russian state-civilization, which it would preserve, reproduce and cultivate at all stages of its existence and development. They finally took root during its imperial phase, acquiring the properties of a tradition that operated and was increasingly established in its value bases, despite the change of state forms, political language, managerial and legal technologies.
Key words: state-civilization, core ethnic group, civilizational-state ideology, civilizational mission, Tsardom of Moscow, Russian Empire, civilizational identity, autocratic.
Citation. Grachev N.I. The Formation of Russia as a State-Civilization: From Ancient Rus to Soviet Russia. Legal Concept = Pravovaya paradigma, 2025, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 32-44. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2025.3.4
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