Current issues in the history of self-regulation development in Russia

Abstract

This article examines various viewpoints of legal scholars regarding the history of self-regulation in Russia. The paper identifies and analyzes the contentious issues in studying the history of Russian self-regulation through the lens of the modern self-regulation model, without considering the historical context of the time period, without distinguishing self-regulation as a social, economic, or legal phenomenon, and by establishing equality between self-regulation and self-regulating organizations. In particular, using the example of the Ivanovo commune and other merchant artels of the 12th–15th centuries, it is demonstrated that the aforementioned approach leads to a controversial classification of these organizations as prototypes of modern self-regulating organizations, differing interpretations of the legal nature and essence of self-regulation, and, consequently, contradictory conclusions about the history of self-regulation in Russia.