Valery Vasilyevich Lazarev and his Polemical Issues of the Development of the General Theory of Law and the State

The article is devoted to the ideas of Valery Vasilyevich Lazarev on the development of the general theory of law and the state. His fundamental theses were expressed about 10 years ago, they are relevant for modern legal science, we are talking about the following. The value of theoretical legal knowledge is disproportionately lower compared to the Soviet period. Law should not be separated from politics, and the theory of law should not be separated from the theory of the state. It should be understood that the theory of law and the state can contribute to political myth-making. Nevertheless, the main task of the theory of law and the state is to develop an adequate concept for the de velopment of the political and legal system of society. We need more accurate assessments of democracy, human freedom, human rights and duties, and the mutual responsibility of man and the State. The development of these issues within the framework of a new doctrine on which the foundations of the constitutional system can be based is the main task of modern theoretical legal science.