The phenomenon of legal populism in the Russian Empire

In the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century, ideology and movement among the democratic Russian intelligentsia, called "legal populism", gained popularity. Representatives of the legal populism believed in the socialist way of life and sought to achieve it by raising the moral and mental level of the peasants. The phenomenon of legal populism has its own specifics, which is determined by the internal state of the state. This specificity is closely related to the main functions of legal populism, based on which theorists sought to overcome economic, cultural and political backwardness.