HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF VICTIMS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS OF RUSSIA

The Article is devoted to tendencies of development of legal position of victims in criminal proceedings of Russia. Using the method of phenomenological characteristics, as well as the method of dialectics with its inherent principle of historicism, a dedicated period of development of the legal position of victims in criminal proceedings of Russia from 1917 to 2017.

The results showed that the rules governing the legal position of victims in criminal proceedings of Russia reflect numerous characteristics and peculiarities of current economic, social, political and cultural transformations and changes in man, society and the state. The weakening of attention to ensuring the implementation of the procedural status of the victim occurred naturally in times of radical transformation and change, for example, occurring in the period of the destruction of the Russian Empire, during the formation of the totalitarian state. In turn, positive dynamics of development of the legal status of victims in criminal proceedings is observed in a consistent, incremental and commensurate with the realities of the legal approach to transformation.

Achieving the study goals and objectives depends on the use of philosophical, historical and legal research methods.