Legal Consciousness of Mining Workers in the Ural Mining Region in the Late 19th to Early 20th Century
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https://doi.org/10.14571/brajets.v17.n2.821-829Keywords:
legal culture, workers, government, lawAbstract
The reform of modern Russian society, among many directions, involves the creation of a civil society and a rule of law in our country. Achieving this goal is impossible without the formation of an adequate legal consciousness adopted by the strategy. One of its supporting structures is the socio-cultural and mental foundations that have developed over the past centuries of Russian history and largely determine the attitude of Russians to the law, its representatives and other components of the legal sphere. Taking into account the duration of the formation of legal practices of the population and their consolidation in the mass consciousness at the level of behavioral codes, this problem requires its consideration on earlier historical material. To this end, the article analyzes the features of the legal consciousness of the workers of the mining Urals in the late XIX –early XX centuries. In the course of the study, we came to the conclusion that the attitude of the Ural workers to the law was determined not by formal legal norms, but by its interpretation in accordance with their ideas of justice and legal dualism on the principle of "judging by the law or by conscience". In the future, this served as a popular legal legitimization of any lawlessness, if it was committed in the interests of the masses and led to the priority of group regulatory regulators over national ones.References
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