Ideological state in conceptions of E. Nolte and N. N. Alekseev as a subject of sociopolitical research

The article analyzes the concepts of ideological and ideocratic state which were developed by the German political historian E. Nolte and philosopher and lawyer N. Alekseev, who was one of the ideologists of Eura-sianism. The author observes theoretical idea, the process of ideological state development, and the basic principles of its functioning. In the investigated models of ideological state there emphasized the role of political ideology, the ways of its formation and reproduction in social consciousness.