Проблемы становления Древнерусского государства в трудах С.А. Корфа

Abstract

Considering the problem of the regularity of statehood S.A. Korf notes three levels of this problem: the first is the evolutionary forms of the social organization of society (from primitive to more complex forms); the next level is the emergence of new states among the existing ones; and the last level is the justification of the subjection of the individual to state power. The paper concludes that states arise in the course of a long evolution of social structures and represent the most perfect form of human social life. The state is understood as a form of social organization that functions according to the historically established system of social regulators, including law, and is the source of power of the subjects of management over other individuals. For the first time in the history of science, S.A. Korf tried to separate the concepts of state and statehood, by which he understood the qualitative characteristics of society at a certain stage of life.