About the book: 2023 / The first independent publication of the text in 2013, which predicts the scenario of confrontation between Russia and the West, as well as the prospects for its development . The book has been significantly improved and expanded, and has undergone scientific editing. The history of Russia is considered as one of the main lines of world and European history. The authors see the fate of Russian civilization on the path of the fundamental resolution of the contradictions that lie at the foundations of European development, carried out by Russia..