Abstract:
The relevance of the review of this book is due to the growing interest of the international scientific
community in new variants of realistic jurisprudence, including Russian. The subject of the research in
the review is the analysis of the structure and main themes of E.N. Tonkov’s monograph “Russian Legal
Realism” published in 2024. The purpose of the work is to present and evaluate the author’s philosophical
and legal concept of Russian legal realism, which emphasizes the importance of the actual experience
and intentions of legal actors, and also seeks to reduce formalism and abstractness in jurisprudence. The
novelty of the topic is due to the relatively recent emergence of the term included in the title of the book,
because of E.N. Tonkov’s research since 2012. Its comprehensive justification in the author’s work based
on a diachronic study of law and order on the territories of the former Russian Empire. The research
methods used were descriptive, comparative-legal, formal-logical and other methods that contribute to
the reconstruction and interpretation of the author’s views. The main conclusion of the review of E.N.
Tonkov’s book is that Russian legal realism is an important part of the postclassical research program
currently being developed, allows us to trace the evolution of the Russian law and order and provides
answers to many theoretical and practical questions of modern jurisprudence
