The reader's collection of works by the famous philosopher, creator of American political philosophy Leo Strauss is devoted to key problems of classical and modern political thought. Strauss' demanding formulation of principal problems is combined with a deep analysis of the classical political works of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche. All texts are published in Russian for the first time.