The Development of the Idea of Universal Legal Equality in Russia in the Early 20th Century

The article considers the features of the theoretical and ideological formation and development of the idea of universal legal equality of participants in legal relations in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century as one of the basic principles of state law. Political and legal views on this issue of a prominent Russian jurist of the early twentieth century, F.F. Kokoshkin, are being analyzed. Destructive factors and remnants of feudalism that impede state transformations and the introduction of the principle of universal legal equality in Russia are analyzed, such as estate, restrictions on nationality, and unwillingness to the transformations of various political forces represented in the State Duma.