Albert Konstantinovich Chernenko (russian: Альберт Константинович Черненко; 6 January 1935 – 11 April 2009) was a Russian

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, best known for his innovations in the field of

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and

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. He was the son of

Konstantin Chernenko Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko uk, Костянтин Устинович Черненко, translit=Kostiantyn Ustynovych Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Commun ...

, the fifth

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, and Faina Chernenko. During the rule of the

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, Chernenko created the theory of "historical

causality Causality (also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is influence by which one event, process, state, or object (''a'' ''cause'') contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an ''effect'') where the cau ...

," which asserts that the multilevel nature of cause-effect relationships plays a significant part in historical processes. This was an essential step in the development of the Soviets' understanding of historical events. According to Chernenko, causality in history has three levels of self-development: "general" (the building of a concrete formation), "special" (historical conditions), and "individual" (actions of historic figures).Albert Chernenko, ''Features of Causality In History And Dialectics of Its Research'', 1971, ''Socially-Philosophical Problems of The Theory of Historical Causality'', 1985 In the early 1990s, he developed the idea of "legal technology," in which the methodology of social engineering is used to design social processes and to reform a social system. The purpose of legal technology, according to Chernenko, is the creation of a rational and effective legal system in light of the multilevel nature of causality and system-substantial understanding of the right. In this sense as the social phenomenon has the right not only external (the social environment), but also internal potential of inconsistent "self-development", that allows to consider the legal phenomena in a context sociocultural determinations (at a macrolevel) and self-determinations (microlevel).

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* ''Features of Causality In History And Dialectics of Its Research'' (1971) * ''Causality In History'' (1983) * ''Socially-Philosophical Problems of The Theory of Historical Causality'' (1985) * ''Legal Philosophy'' (1997) * ''Alternatives of Economic And Legal Development'' (2002) * ''The Target Component And Axiological Aharacter of Legal Technology'' (2003) * ''Theoretical And Methodological Problems of The Legal System Forming'' (2004) {{DEFAULTSORT:Chernenko, Albert 1935 births 2009 deaths Historiographers Soviet philosophers 20th-century Russian philosophers Children of national leaders Burials at Zayeltsovskoye Cemetery