The topic of crises and anti-crisis programs in historical-legal studies

The history of state and law as a science and academic discipline is often criticized for its lack of current topics and detachment from practice. The aim of the study is to demonstrate, through a relevant example, how historical-legal data can be used for developing programs to overcome crises in the state and legal spheres. The main methods used were general scientific methods such as analysis and synthesis, the dialectical method, and the descriptive method, as well as special methods of legal research – the formal-legal method, the comparative-legal method, and the method of legal modeling. The analysis of the topic of crises in the historical and legal works of Russian researchers from the pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and modern periods was conducted. It is shown that the topic of crises presents legal historians with the need to study issues such as the cyclical nature of state and legal development, the creation of new periodizations of the history of state and law, and the inclusion of material on the history of international law. It has been established that historical and legal science offers anti-crisis programs such as the inadmissibility of abandoning any legal doctrine and the creation of opportunities for the parallel development of different scientific schools, as well as the development of a classification of crises in the state and legal spheres, which allow for the identification of indicators of various crises. It is concluded that the topic of crises is useful for consideration from a historical and legal perspective, as it allows us to see the causes of crises, their stages, possible consequences, and to offer proven solutions for overcoming them.