Reform of serfdom and its impact on legal consciousness and legal culture of peasants

Abstract

The author believes that the abolition of serfdom had a "colossal" significance for the formation of new forms of legal consciousness and legal culture of the peasant population. These categories influenced the historical formation of the rule of law and the transition to a new form of government. The paper states that insufficient attention has been paid to the issues of legal consciousness and legal culture of peasants in the scientific community, which led to a narrow circle of approaches to the study of peasant life and psychology. The subject of the study is the patterns of formation and functioning of the legal consciousness and legal culture of the peasant after the abolition of serfdom. The author used the works of scientists in the field of law, philosophy and history to form more informed conclusions on the research topic. The purpose of the work is to analyze the formation and development of legal consciousness and legal culture of the population of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century after the abolition of serfdom.