Our great country has a long and fascinating history. This includes the history of private international law.
The beginning of the formation and development of private international law goes back to the Russian Empire. The fact is that the territory of the Russian Empire was not homogeneous. There were separate territories that had their own specific features in the field of consideration of civil cases. And so that there were no problems in matters of applicable law, interregional conflicts were used.
Further, after the Russian Empire, the Soviet period begins, associated with the coming to power of the Bolsheviks. During this stage, private international law and international law in general does not apply and exists as “science for science”. The fact is that, on the one hand, the policy of the Soviet state was rather closed, on the other hand, the conduct of international affairs was carried out through a special state committee, that is, international relations were the sole domain of the state. The first works in the field of international law in this period belonged to Makarov, Krylov, Koretsky, etc.
In the 60s, there is a practical need for international private law. This spurred the development of science. But a really great need for private international law appeared in the 80s, when the country embarked on the path of economic and political reforms.
The next stage was the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The newly formed independent republics had neither the experience nor the basis for the development of international relations. Russia remained in the most advantageous position, since only there was the Soviet school of private international law.
To form the basis for the development of international relations and private international law, in particular, at the CIS assembly in 1996, a model civil code was adopted, in which section 7 was assigned to this area of science.
