Political and legal ideas of M. M. Kovalevsky on collective responsibility, personal rights, civic consciousness and progress

The article analyses the political and legal ideas of M. M. Kovalevsky, the author of the continuous progress theory, concepts of social and collective responsibility. The author studies the doctrine of Kovalevsky on personal rights, his original ideas about a state governed by the rule of law and civic consciousness. The author also considers how M. M. Kovalevsky developed various methods of research of historical, legal and political thought as well as his active scientific and public activities.