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Highlights of the Constitutional Legal Regulation of the National Question in Russia

https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2016.117.8.141-151

Abstract

The article shows the history of the development of legal regulation of the "national question" in the acts of constitutional value and the Constitution of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and Russia. The author notes two main areas in which the constitutional and legal regulation of the national question has developed, namely, the first - in the field of human rights, and the second - in the field of government. In the course of the analysis the author pays attention to the content of the rules governing the national question in the Constitution, as well as an attempt to establish a link between the rules and the historical events which have caused their adoption. He aoutlines additional reasons that led to revolutionary change of government in 1918, Through the prism of Marxist-Leninist teachings on the nature of the Constitution the author considers the prerequisites for adoption of the Constitution of the USSR in 1936 and 1977., securing the balance of class forces in the corresponding historical period. On the basis of the modern theory, the mechanism of international guarantees of peace in the Russian Constitution of 1993 is analyzed. The above historical and legal analysis allows the author to conclude that the presence of five major stages of development of the constitutional and legal regulation of the national question, and to determine the overriding principle that forms the foundation of the national policy of the fundamental law of the state of the corresponding historical period, which is a conceptual approach to defining the essence of the people inhabiting country, reflected in the Constitution. This allows the author to come to the conclusion that a change in the existing Constitution should be guided by the traced dialectic of development and national policies should be built on the basis of the early stage of nation-building In addition, the author comes to a conclusion about the continuity of the principles of national policy on the Declaration of the Rights of Peoples of Russia in 1917 up to the Strategy of the state national policy until 2025. It is noted that three of the four key principles embodied in the Declaration of the Rights of Peoples of Russia, continue to operate in the Russian Constitution, except for the principle of free exit from Russia.

About the Author

V. N. Alfimtsev
Main Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior for the Moscow Region
Russian Federation


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Alfimtsev V.N. Highlights of the Constitutional Legal Regulation of the National Question in Russia. Lex Russica. 2016;(8):141-151. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2016.117.8.141-151

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