Self-taught political knowledge. The anthology genre is observed here exactly: dozens of documents, speeches and interviews of Russian politicians, our critics and foreign ones are collected in a dozen sections - from what politics is in general to what the question of national sovereignty is nowadays, from the concise and capacious characteristics of the main political ideologies to the political system of the state and the essence of its reform. The questions to the reader, with which each section ends, are formulated in such a way that a clear answer to them is possible subject to careful, reasonable reading of the book, useful both as a reference book and as a textbook.