North Caucasus model features of religious policy conserning the islamIc associations in 1917-1930-ies

In the article the features of the Soviet government religious policy regarding the North Caucasus Islamic associations was based on the published materials, the archival documents, the scientific research literature. The theoretical basis of this work was the modeling method, which allowed presenting a religious course in the form of the two model which the different descriptions: the structural model, consisting of four interrelated elements (a value-oriented, regulatory, institutional and functional) and the system model including the identification, separation and cooperation subspecies. Basing on this methodology, the analysis of policy measures aiming at the governmental abolition of the Sharia justice, the development of atheistic propaganda, the sectarian tensions preventing. It is proved that with the strengthening of the Soviet government in the North Caucasus, their interests in the authorities to implement Islamic law gradually weaken. Sharia has been regarded as a necessary measure generated by the frankness of the mountain communities of people’s courts, the lack of national representation in the formal judicial system, thus it’s embarked on its strengthening. The cause of religious conflict in the national regions became a wide range of unresolved economic and social problems. The development of the atheist propaganda in the region has a weak performance due to the high degree of religiosity. Thus, by the end of the 20s of the twentieth century in the North Caucasus there was a separation model religious policy, a feature which has been the gradual exclusion of religious groups from participation in public affairs. The consideration of the religious issues in this context does not allow to integrate the Islamic justice's authorities in the judicial system of the USSR. At the same time, it formulated the principle of selective interaction with the Islamic societies, having different levels of economic, cultural and political development.