ON THE QUESTION OF THE CRITERIA FOR COVERING THE PROBLEMS OF REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA

The relevance of the theme is seen in the fact that in the post-Soviet period there was a blurring of the criteria for scientific reconstruction and assessment of the problems of revolution and counter-revolution in Russia. The purpose of the work is to provoke a critical reflection on the methodological and ideological turn that has taken place. According to the author, the reverse side of the restoration of the conservative and right-wing liberal historical-legal and theoretical-legal discourse was the unrea-sonable rejection of the principles of dialectical thinking in the works of post-Soviet authors and, as a result, the reideologization of the historical-legal sphere of academic knowledge. The idea is substantiated that the modern scientific optics of understanding the problems of revolution and counter-revolution in Russia should include not only a specific understanding of the essence of the prerevolutionary system (dependent peripheral capitalism), but also an assessment of the confrontation between the revolutionary movement and the tsarist regime from the point of view of a concretely understood social ideal. The first steps of this ideal in historical practice are reflected in the images of high culture.