N. Rouland Historical introduction to law (Extract from a new book published by the Nota Bene Publishing House).

Abstract: The appearance of Slavic tribes on the territory of the Russian plain is usually attributed by scientists to the VI-VII centuries AD. However, by this time, the Eastern Slavs had signs of social inequality not only in the form of stratification into rich and poor and into free and slaves, but also in the presence of such public institutions as the assembly free representatives of the tribe (veche), the council of elders, the leader of the tribe (prince). The article presents a study of the genesis of princely power among Eastern Slavs, as well as the forms and methods of its transition into the pre-state era , since it was the princely power of the state era that became the personification of the state.