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We have before us a book that is very unusual in concept and genre. This is also a polylogue that all participants in the longest (more than two hundred years) dispute in the history of Russian social thought, the dispute between the Westerners and the Pochvennikov, from Chaadaev and Kireevsky to Fedotov and Pomerants, Klyamkin and Chesnokova, are waging among themselves. This is also an analytical study showing how this dispute ceases to be a purely Russian phenomenon and becomes part of the big problem of the globalization of the world, the phenomenon of entering a New historical era, the New Middle Ages. Humanity does not yet have the experience of such a global, all-terrestrial Middle Ages, but it may turn out that in overcoming new crises, the answers that the first Westernizers and Slavophiles gave in Moscow and St. Petersburg drawing rooms two centuries ago will help us. The openness of quotes and points of view, from which the authors build their conclusions, make this book a laboratory of thought, interesting not only for professional scientists with its analysis and a huge reference apparatus, but also for students and graduate students specializing in political science, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, history .