CIVILIZATIONAL CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN LEGAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Abstract

The relevance of the presented research is determined by the request to correlate legal reforms in Russia with the features of the Russian civilization. The methodological basis of the study was the application of civilization theory to the analysis of transformation processes in Russia and the world. The aim of the study was to contextualize Russian legal reforms within the framework of the socio-cultural issues of Russia. The result of the study was a proof of civilizational and axiological variability of legal transformations in history and the modern world, interpretation of the experience of post-Soviet right-wing reform as a manifestation of alien civilizational and axiological tranche and a forecast on a conservative axiological inversion. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the author’s recommendations for revising the vector of legal reforms in accordance with civilizational and axiological anatomy of Russia.