Traditional and new view on theoretical and legal phenomenonof classification of modern state functions
The article discusses current approaches to the classification of state functions. The author believes that the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis) and specially scientific (formal legal) methods of knowledge allows to explore the kinds of functions of the state and the grounds for their classification, as well as promotes the release of state functions of a certain type at different stages of development of a society that has a particular scientific value for development of the theory of state. On the basis of the analysis of the classifications of the state functions, the author comes to the conclusion that at each stage of development of the state as an institution of power and control of society state functions that affect its internal structure, the mechanism of realization of state functions and form the history of the development of statehood. There is not a unified view on the concept of classification of state functions. Due to the fact that the state in modern conditions can not be the only major functions, the author proposes to classify the functions of the state on ''leading function of the state'' and ''the additional (optional) functions of the state''. The author notes that the classification of the functions of the state at the present stage of development of the Russian state was transformed into a function of the welfare state.