THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LEGAL NIHILISM IN RUSSIA: THE EXPERIENCE OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLICATION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the identification of the theoretical foundations of legal nihilism. Based on the analysis of the works of famous Russian jurists of the second half of the XIX XX centuries and the widespread use of the dialectical method, stable scientific ideas and national features of legal nihilism in Russia are revealed. In the framework of the discussion about the essence of legal nihilism, a definition of the phenomenon under consideration is proposed. The authors conclude that a theoretical generalization of the manifestations of legal nihilism is necessary. Such a technique will reveal the constant relationship between them and associate certain legal consequences with them, the uniformity of which provides the basis for the conclusion of the general theoretical principles of legal nihilism.