Finally, there is a self-taught political knowledge for a person who graduated from high school and did not lose the desire to understand the world, in the country of which he became a citizen from a formal point of view, having received a passport, and in fact becomes it as he reaches political maturity. The genre of the cross is observed here exactly: dozens of documents, speeches and interviews of Russian politicians, critics of ours and foreign ones are collected in a dozen sections - from what politics is in general, to what the issue of national sovereignty is today. from the compressed and capacious characteristics of the main political ideologies to the political system of the state and the essence of its reform Questions to the reader, which complete each section, are formulated in such a way that a clear answer to them is possible with careful, judicious reading of the book, useful both as a reference book and as a textbook. Among the authors included in the textbook are Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Weber, Moscow, Pareto, Parsons, Marx, Huntington, Rousseau, Lincoln, Ostrogorsky, Duverge, Bakunin, Lenin, Schmitt, Anderson, Zinoviev, Brzezinski, Gorbachev, Putin, and others .