I.V. Stalin’s political and legal ideology: general discourse

Introduction. The study of the state and law of the USSR, whose successor and legal continuer is the modern Russian Federation, is impossible in isolation from the activities and political outlook of I.V. Stalin, one of its founders and state leader for almost thirty years. The subject of the paper is the discourse analysis of the political and legal ideology of I.V. Stalin by studying the ontological and epistemological prerequisites of its content and identifying on this basis the historical and cultural conditionality of its conceptual idea.