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The Right to a Dignified Human Existence in Legal Theory and Lawmaking of Russia at the Beginning of the XXth Century

Student: Smolin Aleksey

Supervisor: Anastasija S. Tumanova

Faculty: Faculty of Law

Educational Programme: Legal History, Theory and Philosophy of Law (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2018

The proposed research topic is devoted to one of the most important issues of development not only of the Russian state in the beginning of the XX century, but also of the entire human community - worthy of human existence. This is a generalized concept of the minimum of social rights, in addition to natural, in the absence of which a person can not exist and develop as a fully-valuable person and a full representative of a state education. These rights include, first of all, the right to work and rest, to decent wages, health care, pensions, education, housing and others. The subject of this research is the content of the right to a decent human existence in the interpretation of Russian jurists and the legislative process of the Russian Empire of the early XX century. The aim of the study is to analyze the complex doctrinal documents containing the theoretical formulation of the right to a decent human existence, as well as in the study of government bills P.A. Stolypin aimed at consolidating the individual social rights of workers and employees in the early XX century.

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