Albert Konstantinovich Chernenko (Russian: Альберт Константинович Черненко; 6 January 1935 – 11 April 2009) was a Russian philosopher, best known for his innovations in the field of social and legal philosophy.
During the rule of the Soviet Union, Chernenko created the theory of "historical causality," which asserts that the multilevel nature of cause-effect relationships plays a significant part in historical processes.
[1] 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).
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).