Volgograd, Russian Federation
UDK 342.24 Федерализм. Федеративная система. Конфедерация
Legal studies are still dominated by ideas about the USSR as a de facto unitary state or pseudo-federation. In the political and territorial structure of the Soviet Union, one can indeed find elements of unitarism, federalism, autonomy, and even confederalism, as well as a fairly persistent tendency towards de facto unitarism. But according to the author, these and other political and legal features of the Soviet state, studied in this work, indicate that the USSR, almost throughout its existence, was the most prominent representative of imperial statehood, a classic example of a federal centralized empire.
empire, federalism, confederalism, unitarianism, revolution, geopolitics, civilizational mis sion, center and periphery, socialism
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