About the book: 2003 / The work offered to the reader is a general theoretical course on state and law. It systematically covers the central problems of the general doctrine of state and law, of state-legal reality. On controversial issues, differing points of view are considered; Attempts are being made to search for approaches and ideas that can help to understand the reasons for differences in views, to identify the common points that exist in them and to promote, on this basis, the convergence of the positions of different researchers. For students, graduate students, teachers of law universities and faculties, as well as for all readers interested in the problems theories of state and law.