Zhidelev, V.A. State power as a legal category.

Abstract: In the modern science of theory and history of law and state the problem of state power and its true nature is subject to much discussion. The topicality of studies of the Russian state power is related to the current changes in the Russian statehood, new approach of the Russian Constitution to the nature of state power, and other dynamic events of the late XX century. This article mostly concerns itself with the sources and nature of state power as a general social category.