REISNER’S DOCTRINE OF SUPREME POWER

Abstract

The article analyzes the views of Mikhail Andreevich Reisner on the institution of Supreme power (1868-1928) — a prominent Russian jurist of the early Soviet period, whose ideas were used in socialist state-building. M. A. Reisner’s views were very original. Among the features of the state, he attached key importance to state power as an «organizational idea of people’s political behavior», defining the state through «phantasms» (ideas) of Supreme power.