Soviet understanding of the state and law from the 60s to the mid-1980s

This article, devoted to the theme of the Soviet understanding of the state and law, covers the period from the beginning of the 60s to the beginning of the 1960s. before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and is devoted to three issues discussed during this period: the expediency of a single definition of law, the role of state coercion in the formation of law and its class essence. The purpose of the study is to consider changes in the Soviet theory of state and law in the period from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The scientific novelty of the work lies in highlighting the class-volitional approach to understanding the state and rights. As a result, the works of Soviet lawyers during this period show the processes of moving away from the normative approach to understanding the state and law to modern broad understanding of law.