State Ideology as a Mandatory Feature of the Constitutional State
https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2023.201.8.123-132
Abstract
The recent history of Russian state building is directly connected with numerous, and not always successful, attempts to formulate state ideology. Such attempts at «ideological search» intensified with the adoption of amendments to the Constitution of Russia in 2020. Despite a number of scientific works devoted to the problems of the formation of state ideology, today in the Russian legal doctrine the polarity of opinions regarding the content of state, national, constitutional ideology has not been eliminated, which, in turn, affects the process of development of the state and law. The purpose of this work is to identify the reasons for the consolidation in Part 2 of Article 13 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation of the prohibition on the establishment of any ideology as state or mandatory. It also aims to formulate a number of terms related to the research topic, resolve the competition between state ideology, national, constitutional and ideology of the ruling group.The paper uses such methods of scientific research as synthesis, abstraction, generalization. The author analyses the works of E. Y. Barkhatova, V. I. Yakunin, P. A. Astaficheva, N. S. Bondar, E. E. Barinov, V. V. Lazarev, B. S. Ebzeeva, and other authors.The results of the study consist in the formulation of the author’s interpretation of a number of terms: national ideology; state ideology; constitutional ideology; ideology of the ruling group. The interrelation of the state ideology and the national ideology, as well as the ideology of the ruling group, is shown. Separately, the principles of the formation of national ideology are disclosed, the features of the state ideology in the USSR are shown. The results of the research can be used in the science of constitutional law, the general theory of state and law, political science.
About the Author
A. V. Krotov
Nizhny Novgorod Institute (Branch), Moscow University of Humanities and Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Andrey V. Krotov - Dr. Sci. (Law), Lecturer, Department of Legal Disciplines
Sormovskoe sh., d. 20, Nizhny Novgorod, 603074
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Krotov A.V. State Ideology as a Mandatory Feature of the Constitutional State. Lex Russica. 2023;76(8):123-132. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2023.201.8.123-132
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