The article analyzes the state of Soviet legal science. The features of jurisprudence affecting the state and prospects of the development of legal thought are revealed. The scientific and practical justification of the need for a deep revision of the existing system of ideas about law, the development of such scientific provisions, according to which a radical transformation of the entire legal system would be carried out, is given. The directions of enriching the content of legal science are investigated. The development of domestic legal science is proposed on the basis of well-developed general theoretical concepts of analytical jurisprudence, philosophy of law and legal sociology, instrumental and behavioral-psychological theories.