Social Justice and Its Place in the Doctrine of the Russian Welfare State

Abstract

The term «social justice» has become firmly established in the science of constitutional law and constitutes one of the fundamental pillars of the constitutional doctrine of the social state in Russia. In the author’s view, social justice is a necessary element of the social state in all its manifestations. In the constitutional law sphere, social justice is expressed through guarantees of citizens’ social rights and freedoms and through the state’s social policy. Accordingly, the author analyzes the current implementation of the social state in Russia through the prism of social justice, in both its general theoretical and its specific, targeted meanings. The study attempts to trace the evolution of the doctrine of the social state within constitutional law by focusing on this crucial component — social justice.