Sokolshik, I.M. On force-based and legal interpretations of a state.

Abstract: In any scientific interpretation a state is defined via the terms of the public political power. In Russian political culture the traditionally prevailing paradigm of state and law is power-based, which meets the needs of the Russian political reality, and the same approach prevails in legal science. If during the Soviet times this paradigm was direct and ”vulgar”, now the theory of law attempts to somehow unite the power-based approach to the state with the constitutional provisions on human rights and the jural state.