RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN SCHOLARLY TEXTBOOKS ON THE THEORY OF STATE AND LAW AT THE START OF THE 21<sup>ST</sup> CENTURY : COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Comparative analysis is given to 24 textbooks, encyclopedic and academic courses, etc. (12 entries from each country) by Russian and Ukrainian high school law experts published between 2005 and 2011. The above mentioned literature is compared along the following criteria: number of authors and their status, the absence or presence of reviewer or reviewers, their credentials, place of work; the year of publishing and the place of publishing (here the two capitals - Kiev and Moscow - clearly dominate, though the literature was also published in Saint Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Odessa and Kharkov - significant centers of higher level legal education and law science). The final section of the paper presents some conclusions on general and specific features of the two countries’ scholarly textbooks on the theory of state.