Development of civil society in the Russian state.
The article is devoted to research of the history of a civil society development in Russia. Return in the Russian State of the idea of legal statehood and civil society made for a number of factors: a process of state property transformation, one-party system liquidation, court bodies' reformation, etc. Acceptance of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on December 12, 1993 testifies to preparatory period completion and signifies a new stage of development and realization of the ideas of legal statehood and views of a civil society. The process is characterized by novelty and succession.