This training course is a systematic presentation of the main topics and problems in the program of general theory of law and state. It was prepared taking into account the experience and achievements of various areas of domestic and foreign legal thought and is focused on in-depth theoretical study and knowledge of law and state. Significant attention in the course is paid to the scientific understanding of the current stage and prospects for the development of law and the state in Russia, the theoretical justification of ways to establish in the country the ideas of the rule of law and legal legitimacy, human rights and freedoms, civil society and the rule of law. For students, graduate students and teachers of legal education institutions, specialists in the field of jurisprudence and other social sciences.