Abstract: The object of this research is the ordinary legal consciousness. The subject of this research is the factors that define the statics and dynamics of ordinary legal consciousness during the first post-revolution decades. Special attention is given to the substantiation of the possibility of using historical sources of private origin for reconstruction of the peculiarities inherent in the ordinary legal consciousness. The work demonstrates that from the position of communicative approach, birth of new Soviet law is seen as a process that combines different strategies of interaction between the subjects depending on historical stage, as well as a dialogue between authorities and the people. The novelty of this research consists in proposal to expand the historiographical base by application of methods such as discourse analysis and semiotic analysis. On several examples from written sources of private origin, the author demonstrates some typological characteristics of legal consciousness, representing basic archetypes. Results of this research substantiate the possibility of reconstruction of the genesis of “living law” using semiotic discourse analysis of historical text and confirm the prospects of their application from the position of communicative approach towards legal understanding. A conclusion is made that post-classical methods of research warrant an opportunity and necessity to expand the source base of study of such type of legal consciousness as ordinary.

Abstract: This article focuses on the historico-legal issue, namely the analysis of the language policy in the Soviet Union, as one of the main vectors of the legal policy within the framework national question. Basing on the new archive materials, the author points out that the organized and legal support of the ability to obtain higher education in native language and responsibilities of the Soviet government officials to conduct clerical correspondence in local languages reflected the subjectivity of the Lower Volga Krai residents, including the national minorities transferred over to the new Turkic alphabet. In the course of the conducted research, the author confirms the thesis that the Soviet government officials were forced to follow the hierarchy of political administrative divisions as well as legal policy with regards to language. The amount of languages “necessary” for a successful career advancement varied depending on the administrative territorial status of a constituent. Latinisation of language graphics of national minorities in the Volga-Don region produced controversial results.

Abstract: This article focuses on the historico-legal issue, namely the analysis of the language policy in the Soviet Union, as one of the main vectors of the legal policy within the framework national question. Basing on the new archive materials, the author points out that the organized and legal support of the ability to obtain higher education in native language and responsibilities of the Soviet government officials to conduct clerical correspondence in local languages reflected the subjectivity of the Lower Volga Krai residents, including the national minorities transferred over to the new Turkic alphabet. In the course of the conducted research, the author confirms the thesis that the Soviet government officials were forced to follow the hierarchy of political administrative divisions as well as legal policy with regards to language. The amount of languages “necessary” for a successful career advancement varied depending on the administrative territorial status of a constituent. Latinisation of language graphics of national minorities in the Volga-Don region produced controversial results.