Open AccessTHE IDEA OF FREEDOM IN THE REVOLUTION OF OCTOBER 1917 AND AUGUST 1991: CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL SENSE
Author(s) -
Алексей Ахматов,
A. S. Akhmatov,
Оксана Арустамова,
Оксана Арустамова,
Rosalina V. Shagieva,
R. V. Shagiyeva
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advances in law studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2500-428X
pISSN - 2409-5087
DOI - 10.12737/21514
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , democratic revolution , democracy , politics , political freedom , law , political science , sociology , social science , philosophy , epistemology
The article characterizes one of the Central proclaimed goals of the revolution of October 1917 and August 1991 – establishment of freedom in society: political freedom, social freedom and legal liberties. In comparative-legal aspect addresses the degree of achievement of this purpose the results of the revolutions. Reveals conservative meaning of freedom is different from liberal-democratic approach to freedom. Approach to the concept of freedom through the prism of revolution is political in nature, but the revolutionary mood of the early XX century differed from those at the end of the XX century, had a moral and ethical component, at least part of the content of "freedom", this should be seen as different approaches to the revolutions of the beginning and the end of the century, the various goals of these revolutions, investing in the concept of freedom.