About the book: 2017 / This book is a look at Russia through the prism of what is happening in the world, and, at the same time, a Russian view of the world . The “Cold East Wind” is a symbol of the healthy force needed to destroy the dirt and rot that has accumulated in Russia and the world over the past decades. There is no doubt that this wind can only come from the East - there is nowhere else for it to come from. Moreover, we already have a historical example of such a cleansing hurricane: the work is published in the year of the centenary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, which changed the world of the early 20th century beyond recognition and divided it into two camps, which entered into an irreconcilable struggle. The civil war and intervention of Western countries, continuous conflicts along the borders, the attack of Nazi Germany, the Cold War accompanied the entire history of the USSR...After the counter-revolution of 1991–1993. Russia, it would seem, has “returned to the ranks of civilized countries.” But this impression was deceptive: as soon as we declared our sovereignty, the West turned to the usual methods of pressure on the Russian world, which it had already tried in the 20th century: economic blockade, political isolation, defamation in the media, conflicts along the borders of our country. The world again found itself on the brink of a big war. Before World War II, Stalin managed to outplay his Western “partners” and break through the international isolation into which the Anglo-Saxons actively drove us in 1938–1939. Will we be able to do this? Can we find a way out of our crisis into a “brave new world”? This world will clearly not be similar to the world depicted by I.A. Efremov in “The Andromeda Nebula”, nor on the world of “Noon of the XXII Century” by the early Strugatskys. In addition, you will have to fight for it, cultivating a taste for struggle and riding the cold east wind.