The battle of Stalingrad and its meaning for the creation of a postwar world system

Introduction: the authors consider theoretical and legal and historical significance of the victory the Soviet army in the Battle of Stalingrad. The object for the study is its direct and indirect effects on the conceptual provisions of statehood and law both at home and abroad. The Battle of Stalingrad not only marked the beginning of the radical change during the World War II but it was one of the major conditions for post-war rearrangement of the world which began to be actively discussed beginning in the spring of 1943. The Marxist theory of structure of government, policy in interstate relations and supranational formations, relations with religions, even the political system, the center of which used to be formally the Comintern were substantively revised. All of this is under study. Materials and Methods: historical and sociocultural approaches to the study of the World War II were the basis for the study. The authors review the changes to international relations and home policy after 1943. System and historical and legal methods of research were used. Results: after victories at Stalingrad and Voronezh in 1943 allies began to plan for changing the world map and to make the first basic decisions about the principles of the postwar restructuring of the world. Countries of anti-fascist coalition had come to recognize that western countries would have to transfer Eastern Europe countries to the areas of responsibility. Allies understood that by that time there were no public organizations or political forces left in those countries capable of opposing the anti-fascist bloc of communists and socialists. This meant the emergence of the World Socialist System. In 1943 I.V. Stalin dissolved the Comintern that meant the rejection of the Marxist attitude toward the state as a temporary phenomenon in the process of communist construction. During the same period most of the rights of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) were restored; the process of rehabilitation of the ROC meant, at the very least, a revival of non-Communist corporate law in the country. Discussion and Conclusions: the Stalingrad battle was a key reference for the Great Patriotic War. The acceptance of the Soviet Union as a great power entailed the idea of the emergence of a "socialist camp" and the need for a supranational organization that would regulate interstate contradictions on a legal basis. The Battle of Stalingrad also brought about conceptual changes in the views of the socialist state and law within the country.