СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ОЦЕНКИ ВЗГЛЯДОВ БОЛЬШЕВИКОВ НА ГОСУДАРСТВЕННО-ПРАВОВЫЕ ФОРМЫ СОЗДАНИЯ СОЮЗНОГО ГОСУДАРСТВА – СССР

Abstract

The year of 2022 marks one hundred years since the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as the most important outcome of the Great Russian Revolution and the implementation of the Bolshevik concept of building a multinational state based on the political dictatorship of the RCP(b). This article examines the issues of nationalstate construction, which ended with the formation of the USSR, the conditions and political discussions that preceded the creation of a new type of state. The most interesting is the intraparty discussion between Lenin and Stalin on the issues of federalization and autonomization of the Soviet republics. The consequences of the collapse of the USSR and the further development of the Russian Federation actualize this topic, since hopes for the Commonwealth of Independent States have not been fully realized. The Russian Federation and the former republics of the Union state experienced an acute economic, social, and political crisis in the post-Soviet period, accompanied, in many cases, by interethnic conflicts. In modern conditions, society and historical science face a number of controversial topics, such as: why the collapse of the country occurred and whether it was possible to prevent it, or whether the split in a multinational state was a consequence of the political and organizational and legal principles laid down in it, discussions on which unfolded at the initial stage of the formation of the USSR. In modern historical science, there is no unified concept in assessing the events of 1922 and 1991 and their interrelationships. To assess them, it is important to understand the content of the discussion that unfolded during the political and organizational-legal formation of the USSR.