About the book: 2012 / How revolutions arose in states that were relatively calm in socio-economic terms and far from the least in terms of the standard of living of the population ? Who was behind them? What role did information technology play in them? These and many other questions are answered by the authors of this book - scientists, diplomats, journalists, including the director of the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexey Mikhailovich Vasiliev, who prepared the book for publication. All of them, to one degree or another, witnessed revolutionary events. A kind of “super task” of this book was to find an answer to the question: did the scenario of the Arab uprisings have “directors”? And the conclusion about whether it is possible to use the recipes of the “Arab Spring” in our country is for the readers of this book to draw for themselves..