About the book: year / The dirty fog of dawn stood over Russia. The century was ending. It might seem that the approach of a new time promises us changes, that the inevitability of something great and immaculate stands before us. Behind this airy moiré of smoky spots, which covered the dawn over Russia. Just extend your hand. However, logic said otherwise. No progressive, dynamic, free ideas. Complete exhaustion of thought. Russia sat firmly in the bureaucracy of life principles, in ideological sluggishness and political hopelessness. What could you expect? What could be seen in the future that would give reason for optimism? Russia imagined its future as nothing other than a continuation of its past. She searched for herself in the past, shaking up the dubious values ​​of her accumulated experience. I was looking to do it all over again. This is precisely what made her entire historical experience untenable. Projects for social reconstruction were drawn up in communist, national socialist, and bourgeois-democratic ways. Social thought did not allow any other “innovation.” “But isn’t bourgeois reformism a sign of change?” - an ordinary person would object - a liberal from among those who read tabloid newspapers to the holes and are loyal to everything in the hope of the best. Russian reformism! Ideological cover for new rippers of national property. Calling itself nothing less than “Russian Democracy”, it has in fact embodied itself in the spiritual unity of three vicious principles: money, power and lies. In fact, it has simply torn apart its own symbol - the entrepreneur - with taxes, restrictions, lawless extortions and absolute physical insecurity. But even if this had not happened, the circumstance of the transformation of a super-industrial country into a small-scale small-scale trade would still throw Russia back at least 80 years. In the pre-revolutionary bourgeois-democratic structure. Whose vices and imperfections, in fact, served as the impetus for the creation of social Bolshevism. In this bourgeois reformism, there was as much real progress for Russia as in the re-invention of the kerosene lamp. This is how Russia stood on the threshold of a new time. Her powerful temperament was oppressed by internal contradictions. All this fit well with the general diagnosis: traditionalism.