Legal guarantees were deemed unnecessary where social harmony allegedly prevailed

Evidence

In a more rationalized form, we find the theory that “legal guarantees were needed in states founded upon conquest and threatened by the conflict of classes and races; they were superfluous in a Russia with harmony of classes and friendship of races” (Hans Kohn, op. cit.). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2450

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures how Russia rationalized its rejection of constitutional legality by claiming internal harmony made legal safeguards redundant.
• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s scaffold on how bureaucratic rationality and legal nihilism enable mass exclusion — this is the ideological groundwork for later totalitarian practices.