Publicity1. Two names2. Right is our hope3. Notes on philosophical problems Universe and man Selected philosophical notes4. Maxims . On power, right, man5. Gorbachev and Yeltsin6. Articles: Broken landmark Wouldn't lose Common Commonwealth Law. Sergey Sergeevich Alekseev lawyer, philosopher, writer and citizen . Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize . Works included in the Collection have been created by the author for more than fifty years. Central place in the collection of works is given to books about law, about the complex, difficult, contradictory process of its formation and development in Russia. Individual volumes comprise works on philosophy, journalism and literary and artistic works. Each volume is provided with notes by the compilers. The ninth volume includes the author's works, united by the aim to reveal to the reader in a brief, clear and often vivid and aphoristic form the essence of the most general and legal issues reflecting the nature of law and democracy. At the same time, the problems of modern reality are considered by the author through the prism of philosophical categories. The work "Two names" is devoted to the problem of philosophical and legal principles, it vividly reflected the author's direct communication with students and students. A. Pokrovsky A . M. Winover and B. B. Tortoise. Scientific and journalistic essays "Law is our hope" are devoted to revealing the social meaning of the idea of law. Notes on philosophical problems ("The Universe and Man", "Separate Philosophical Notes") in a concise form expound the philosophical foundations of civil law In Maxims, the author formulates a number of his conclusions on the problems of law, power and man in the form of aphorisms. The essay "Gorbachev and Yeltsin" is characterized by a deep philosophical understanding of a difficult period in the life of Russia. Finally, the articles included in this volume contain the author's reflections on the results of changes in Russia at the end of the XX - beginning of the XXI century. A separate section "Ideology of perestroika . 1992-1995. " presents works reflecting the political and legal positions of C. C. Alekseev at the time when he held public office. The eleventh volume contains reference and bibliographical materials.