Russian Emigrant Legal Thought of the XX Century

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of the understudied jurisprudence Russian legal thought of the emigration in the twentieth century. The author studies the different views on the history of Russian law and the state, the nature of law and state of the most famous lawyers among the number of Russian emigration of the twentieth century. G. K. Gins develops the idea of solidarity, which is based on the idea of building relationships between people on terms of mutual benefit. The future of the state should evolve from liberalism to solidarism. N. N. Alekseev thought, that new perfect russian state should be the guarantee state to their citizens, ideokratic (to serve the general public idea), legal, which protects their own citizens. I. A. Ilyin sees Russia in future as unitary state with a single citizens composition and unified monarchical government. The I. L. Solonevych merit is that he is trying to show the peculiarity of Russian psychology and Russian history, as well as to reveal in its entirety and depth «the russian idea» that would absorb an entire historical experience of the russian people and russian statehood. I. A. Ilyin and I. L. Solonevych negatively evaluated the marxist theory as well as predicted imminent crisis of the soviet power in Russia.