The legal categories of "foreigner," "infidel," and "alien" in the context of the implementation of the state ideology of the Russian Empire
Keywords:
differentiation, stratification, legal category, “foreigner”, “foreigner”, “infidel”, Orthodoxy, state ideology, ideological patriotism, ethnic patriotism, nationalismAbstract
The object of this study is the state ideology of the Russian Empire. The aim of this work is to examine the legal categories of "foreigner," "non-Russian," and "non-believers" as a state model of civilizational differentiation of the population. The objective of this work is to identify the policies and practices of spreading Orthodoxy as the state ideology of the Russian Empire. The primary goal of legally differentiating the population of the Russian Empire into the categories of "foreigners," "non-Russians," and "non-believers" was not to restrict the rights of these categories, but to encourage their adoption of a supra-ethnic state ideology expressed in Orthodoxy. Adoption of Orthodoxy not only guaranteed all the rights and freedoms of imperial citizens but was effectively equated to acquiring Russian status. This supra-ethnic direction of state policy is partly evident in the spread of the state ideology of communism in the USSR.