LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS: FORMING OF VALUE ORIENTATION
The authors analyze the formation of a new legal consciousness as a result of social revolutions which, being initially illegal, acquires the character of innovations excluding former law and order. It is noted that the new ideology emerging from revolutionary slogans justifies the existing social relations, while their legislative consolidation gives them a stable legal status. The authors come to the conclusion that social revolutions are neither a mistake of history nor a developmental dead-end of a society; they act as a means of transition from necessity to freedom.