The problem of integrative approach to understanding law and state in philosophical and legal works by Nikolay Alekseev

The research deals with the study of ideas about law and state of a famous Russian jurist Nikolay Nikolaevich Alekseev. The author focuses on the role of Eurasianism as an ideological, worldview as well as social and political trend in development of the original methodology of Nikolay Alekseev regarding the issues related to law and legal phenomena. There are considered philosophical and legal views of the scientist on law as a phenomenon determined by the features of historical and sociocultural development of a particular society and state. The research provides the ratio of internal and external foundations of law, institutional forms of its implementation in the context of an integrative approach which allows to overcome the one-sidedness and shortcomings of positivistic and natural law approaches. It is concluded that the ideas of Nikolay Alekseev are relevant in modern conditions of a multiethnic and multi-confessional Russian society, as well as its active reforming in the process of building a legal state in Russia.