The subject of the study is the theoretical legacy of the Russian police and state theorists of the second half of the nineteenth and of the early twentieth centuries, who focused their attention on the nature and essence of the police state and on identifying the characteristics of its organization and functioning. Domestic police and state theorists emphasized that the goal of the police state was to achieve the common good. Attempts to achieve this goal have resulted in a comprehensive regulation of people's life and in an actual disregard for the interests of the people. The modern state, in dealing with the discursive and institutional legacy of the police state era in the field of police organization and activity, continues to rely on the idea of security developed by the police and state theorists, and is trying to find new ways to get the resources for the best possible distribution of wealth.
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