Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2009, pp 108
A short but passionately written work convincingly expresses the position of the new generation, which categorically denies capitulatory of any sort be it ideological and economical or the glamorous betrayal of culture. Paraphrasing the well-known saying, the author demonstrates that the one in possession of the present changes the past. The book draws reader’s attention to the falsity of the established myths, such as: “Cold War defeat” or the specific way of interpreting the factual obligations of the USSR – assumed by Russia – into a form of legal succession. Giving his own interpretation of challenges faced by Russia, the author focuses his attention on the cultural matrices if globalization and contemporary Islam, stresses the threat of the “civilization of user” and – instead of the customary juxtaposition of values – adds his own constructive understanding of the fact that the values array of the West and Russia is the same while the priorities within that array are distributed in absolutely different ways.
