The new author's book by Yuri Samonkin, President of the Eurasian Institute for Research and Support of Youth Initiatives, political scientist and publicist,covers the main ideas, concepts and directions of development of the world history of political and legal thought from its inception to the present. Considerable attention is paid to the formation and development of political and legal doctrines in Russia and the foundations of the philosophy of Eurasianism.For students, postgraduates, teachers of law and other humanitarian universities and faculties, as well as a wide range of readers interested in political and legal ideas of the past and the present.